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:
diameter 4.3 centimeters and length 37 centimeters