Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Tobacco pipe
- Place of origin
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Lake Kopiago →
Southern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Duna people
- Year
- collected 1969
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bamboo, poker work
- Dimensions
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26.5cm length:
0 - Whole; 26.5cm (10 7/16"); aft (open) end
0 - Whole; 3.9cm (1 9/16"); fore (closed) end
0 - Whole; 4.1cm (1 5/8")
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 805.1979.14
- 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.
