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Chukchi pipe for smoking during public meetings. Chukchee

Title:

Chukchi pipe for smoking during public meetings

Ethnic groups:

Chukchee

Territory:

Chukot Peninsula, Far East, Anadyr Krai, Primorsky Oblast

Date:

Second half of the 19th century

Collectors-person:
Sokolnikov Nikolai P.
Material:

Wood; bone: horn (reindeer); leather: natural leather: suede: skin suede (reindeer); fibers: animal: wool: reindeer hair under neck; leather (larga seal); metal: brass

Number:

РЭМ 2035-224

Annotation:

Chukchi pipe for smoking during public meetings, wooden, with a low bowl and a shallow hole in it. Along the periphery of the bowl’s outer edge is a metal ring. The pipe’s shank, wide in its greater part, gradually tapers to the ivory mouthpiece. The suede pipe case is decorated with alternating light and dark stripes with a combined ornament, and a brown fringe of whitecoat seal down hair. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva

Albums:
Family: People of One Fire
Rus:
Трубка для курения табака чукчами во время общественных собраний. Чукчи