Tobacco-Pipe

Tobacco-Pipe

Object name: Tobacco-Pipe
Date: 1800-1840
Dimensions:
145 x 70 mm
Medium: Gourd, hide
Where made world:Africa, Sudan
Object number: C02088
DescriptionTur-kee-ber or mouth-piece of a pipe, formed of a gourd covered with hide. A dark outer shell surrounds the red inner shell. The Cuming catalogue attributes it to "Denkar, vicinity of the Bahr el Abiad, or Western Nile region Africa".

Culture: Dinka, Africa