Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Tobacco pipe
- Place of origin
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Laiagam →
Enga Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Enga people
- Year
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bamboo, poker work
- Dimensions
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34.3cm length:
0 - Whole; 34.3cm (13 1/2"); aft (open) end
0 - Whole; 4cm (1 9/16"); fore (open) end
0 - Whole; 3.7cm (1 7/16")
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 740.1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
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Paul Sillitoe (Author), Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, London, 1988. See pages 206, 218-219 for similar designs and images of the production of bamboo tobacco pipes.
'Smoking and Tobacco Pipes in New Guinea' by AC Haddon, pg. 1-278., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 06 Jun 1946, 06 Jun 1946. See pages 123 for similar shaped and decorated pipes from the Tari valley and Lake Kutubu.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Loan exhibition of Native art from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Gallery Stephen Kellner, 15 Sep 1966–06 Oct 1966.
