Pipe
date: label: Date
content: Early-late 19th century
name: label: Maker
content: Nyoro artist
notes: label: Label Text
content: Among many African peoples, pipe smoking is considered an important social activity, with men in particular using long pipes that require their full attention. The ceramic bowl of this pipe, with its black burnished slip finish, resembles the local ceramic vessels.
label: Description
content: Pipe composed of a greyish black globular ceramic bowl and a long red-brown wood stem. The exterior of the bowl is a black burnished slip, and a band of herringbone pattern is incised below the rim.
label: Provenance
content: Collected, Uganda, 1882
label: Provenance
content: Michael Graham-Stewart, London, -- to 1989
label: Exhibition History
content: Art of the Personal Object, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 24, 1991-April 9, 2007
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place: label: Geography
content: Uganda
topic: label: Topic
content: Male use
label: Topic
content: Tobacco
label: Topic
content: male
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content: National Museum of African Art Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Acquisition grant from the James Smithson Society
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Object number
content: 89-8-22
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ceramic, wood
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8.3 x 62.9 x 8.3 cm (3 1/4 x 24 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)