Beer straw
date: label: Date
content: Late 19th century
name: label: Maker
content: Ganda artist
notes: label: Label Text
content: It is the custom among several peoples in Uganda to drink beer through long straws made of soft wood. The tubes are usually partially covered in finely woven raffia with a woven filter at the bottom.
label: Description
content: Beer straw in the form of a reed wrapped with plant fiber with the upper third woven covering in red and brown dyed fibres and natural fibers.
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: Household
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: 89-8-35
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Plant fiber, reed
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 57.2 x 1.6 x 8.6 cm (22 1/2 x 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.)