Pipe
one of pair of fertility pipes; pipe has a dark brown clay bowl with a long wooden stem that is honey in color; bowl of pipe is rendered as face with semi-circle eyes, a large nose, curved like a beak, with flared nostrils, and a small ellipses mouth; area around eyes is smooth, but area around ears and forehead hosts a carved pattern comprised of rows of tiny dots; top of bowl is smooth with a rounded lip and bottom of bowl tapers down into labia; carved design resembling a palm tree is on the PR side of the "neck," which connects the bowl to the stem; the stem has a series of carvings and starts wide and then tapers into thinner cylinder; there are two metal collars where the stem and bowl connect--the second protrudes and is disk-like
- Date
- mid 20th century
- In our collection
- since October the 28th, 2008 up to now
- Dimensions
- 13 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (34.29 × 3.81 cm)
- Location
- G236
- Medium
- Wood, terra cotta
- Price
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- Composition
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atium 75% iron 25%