Tobacco Pipe

P948

From: Borneo | Sarawak | Baram River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number P948
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Kenyah
Provenience Borneo | Sarawak | Baram River
Section Oceanian
Materials Bamboo | Wood | Peel | Plant Fiber
Description

Tobacco pipe. Sunkup. Long piece of bamboo with wooden bowl inserted at right angles into hole near one end. "The stem is a piece of bamboo more than an inch in diameter, into which is set a straight, slim bowl, which can hold only a small wad of tobacco. In the stem they insert a plug of shredded palm leaes, or of shavings of wood, bound on a stick; and then take the end of the stem into their mouths, and having first got the tobacco well alight by a few gentle puffs, they give a powerful suck, whereby the wad of glowing tobacco is drawn down through the bowl into the stem, but is prevented from reaching the mouth by the plug of palm leaves." (The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters)

Height 17.78 cm
Length 42.545 cm
Credit Line Gift of Alfred C. Harrison Jr. and Dr. H. M. Hiller, 1899

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