piphuvud, pipa, pipe

Enligt generalkatalogen: Piphuvud av trä, med utskurna ornament. Rosen, Eric von (1916). Träskfolket: svenska Rhodesia-Kongo-expeditionens etnografiska forskningsresultat. Stockholm: Bonnier Bangveloträsket 1912.06.0288 batwa "A completely different shape than the pipe head described above has the original to Fig. 167. The former is namely long and narrow and has a shape, which I would like to call vase-like, while the latter is of smaller length and greater width. The upper part of this pipe head has been of particular interest to me, for it is shaped in a way as if it were an imitation of an ostrich-like object inserted into a pipe head of the same shape as the ornate part of Fig. 167. This applies also the pipe head Fig. 160, which has obtained the appearance that a pipe head of the type Fig. 161 would have if such an ostrich were inserted into its mouth. Could this not be an indication of a smoking tool of a primitive nature, which was a precursor to the pipes now in use, and could it then be the ostrich-like object which was the previously mentioned blade, which was still used by the people of Mangbeta for pipe heads? Such a funnel-shaped, folded leaf could also be of a certain practical importance in an ordinary pipe in order to retain more tobacco in the pipe than it could hold without such a leaf. The original of Fig. 167 has a total length of 14.3 cm, of which 5 come on the flue sleeve. The width of the head at the mouth is 8 cm. and the mouth is 4 cm. at. The ornaments are of the same kind as on the pipe head Fig. 166." (p. 253, von Rosen, 1916, translated from Swedish). According to the general catalog: Wooden pipe head, with carved ornaments. Nordrhodesia Rhodesia Zambia Svenska Rhodesia-Kongo-expeditionen (1911-1912)