Pipe
- Museum number:
- 9-11496
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011496
- Alternate number:
- Tin-2 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2697
- Description:
- pipe, copper; probably used with 9-11495 as an extension for its air producing end; length 37 cm, diameter 4.3 cm
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
- Collection place:
- Uttar Pradesh, India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Uttar Pradesh
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Richard Lerner
- Collection date:
- 1970
- Materials:
- Copper (metal) and Iron (metal)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Pipes (smoking equipment)
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1970
- Context of use:
- air carrying" according to Lerner; this probably would be used as an extension to Tin-1 (Kallai machine), an air producing "bellows" machine used in a tinning process. specimen purchased from Samuel Christian (45 yrs old) born in Delhi who has been doing this for 14 yrs and learned it from a muslim teacher (whom he paid about 15 Ruppees to learn it from); He goes about on a bicycle and lives in old Delhi near the Kyber Pass. very old
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 37 centimeters and diameter 4.3 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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