Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

Clay smoking pipe, Site A236, 2001


Description:
A short-stemmed, locally made clay smoking pipe, 3 views (bottom: pipe base; center: view from side with bowl to left; view from top). Pipes like this were inspired by those used by America's First Peoples from whom Europeans learned about tobacco. Europeans introduced tobacco smoking to West Africa during the early centuries of trans-Atlantic trade. This pipe has a cylindrical bowl and rounded base that shows extreme use-wear abrasion to that point that a hole has formed in the pipe's base. The bowl is decorated with two sets of horizontal incisions. Below the bottom set are several vertical incisions. Above the top set is faint overall dentate impression The bowl's rimis very abraded. The pipe's stem joins the bowl at the base (a "single-angled" form). The cylindrical stem ends in a rounded collar with a flat lip. Photo scale in cm. Site A236. 24 March, 2001.
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Provenance:
Site A236, Mound 12, Surface
Date:
2001-03-24
Location(s) Facet:
Site A236
Subjects Facet:
Tobacco pipes; Pottery; Artifacts (Antiquities)
Identifier:
SF A236 01-280
Creator:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:
2001
Date searchable:
2001-03-24
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
Image
Source:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Location(s):
Site A236;8.268257, -2.300409
Commentary:
Composite photo made using Adobe Photoshop 2020
Geographic Coordinates:
8.268257, -2.300409