Title
Tobacco pipe
collected 1963
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Laiagam
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Enga Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Enga people
- Date
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bamboo cane
- Dimensions
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37.2 cm length
:
0 - Whole, 37.2 cm (14 5/8")
0 - Whole, 3.5 cm, aft (open) end
0 - Whole, 2.9 cm, fore (open) end
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 741.1979
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Laiagam
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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AC Haddon, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 'Smoking and Tobacco Pipes in New Guinea', pg. 1-278, London, 06 Jun 1946, 124. See page 124 for similar pipe from the Wola Valley, figure 105 D.
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Paul Sillitoe, Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 'Tobacco pipes', pg. 206-212, London, 1988, 207-210. See pages 218-219 for images of the production of bamboo tobacco pipes and pages 207-210 for description of the cane pipe known in Wola as 'hulumb pay', similar in appearance to this pipe collected in Laiagam.
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