Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Judith Knight
label: Donor Name
content: Judith Knight
notes: label: Notes
content: Measured with bowl, on its side. Small gourd decorated with burned designs, mostly horseshoe shapes. A hole drilled into the side is filled with a piece of cane wrapped in red and black cloth. The bowl is made of low fired ceramic.
label: Notes
content: Information from researcher/donor Judith Knight. Souvenir object made by the Tsua of Semliki, Bundibugyo, Uganda. Tsua decorated gourd (cucurbitaceae) pipes with etched clay bowls, ribbon and resin used to secure the two parts together. The gourds are decorated with pyrographic designs similar to Mbuti painted bark cloths (Fig 21); the bowls are etched with similar geometric patterns. Purchased by the donor from the Semliki Tsua in their village on the edge of the forest 1991.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bundibugyo, Semliki River, Uganda, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsua
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2084931
label: USNM Number
content: E436244-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 13 cm
label: Width
content: 10 cm
label: Height
content: 5 cm