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Title

Tobacco pipe

collected 1963

Artists

Unknown Artist

Details

Place where the work was made

Wabag → Enga Province → Papua New Guinea

Cultural origin

Enga people

Date

collected 1963

Media category

Sculpture

Materials used

bamboo, poker work

Dimensions

22.2 cm length :

0 - Whole, 22.2 cm (8 3/4")

0 - Whole, 4.2 cm, aft (open) end

4.4 cm, fore (closed) end

Credit

Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977

Location

Not on display

Accession number

736.1979

Place

Where the work was made
Wabag
Shown in 1 exhibition

Exhibition history

Referenced in 2 publications

Bibliography

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.

Paul Sillitoe, Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 'Tobacco pipes', pg. 206-212, London, 1988, 206, 218-219. See pages 206, 218-219 for similar designs and images of the production of bamboo tobacco pipes.