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Pipe bowl
Pipe bowl
early to mid-1900s
Wood, iron, and copper alloy
Overall: 6 x 7.4 x 24 cm (2 3/8 x 2 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Jo Hershey Selden Fund 2008.152
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Tobacco smoking had important social connotations in Central Africa, denoting age, status, and gender. Perhaps the enlarged hand expressed physical and spiritual powers and indicates that this work belonged to a chief.
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