Subject(s): pottery / Date: 2001 / Format: image - Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

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Description:: A short-stemmed, locally made clay smoking pipe, 2 views (bottom: view from side with pipe bowl to the left; top: 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's cylindrical bowl has a flared pedestal base, the bottom of which shows signs of wear/abrasion. The bowl's rim has broken away. The stem joins the bowl at the base (a "single-angled" form). The cylindrical stem flares at the rim to a flattened lip. The pipe bowl is decorated with closely spaced rows of dentate impression. The flared base is decorated with several clusters of incised lines. Photo scale in cm. Site A233. 10 March, 2001.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 2001-03-10
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects Facet:: Tobacco pipes; Pottery; Artifacts (Antiquities)
Identifier:: SF A233 01-183
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. N. Leith Smith
Date searchable:: 2001
Date searchable:: 2001-03-10
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: Image
Location(s):: A233;8.17376,-2.49841
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Commentary:: Composite photo made using Adobe Photoshop 2020
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.17376,-2.49841

Description:: Photo of a pottery bowl rim, interior view, with profile depicted (left). The shallow bowl's flattened rim is decorated with intersecting red painted lines, and the interior surface with zones of red paint. A narrow band of red paint appears on the external lip of the bowl, which has an otherwise plain exterior surface. An INAA sample ("Banda 27-7") from this bowl was assigned to the "K2" group of ceramic fabrics. It was therefore likely made from clays mined east of the Banda hills. Rim diameter: 26 cm at the interior lip. Sherd represents an estimated 12% of the bowl's circumference. Scale in cm. Site Banda 27. 27 January, 2001.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Provenance:: Banda 27, Mound 2, Unit 1, Level 3
Date:: 2001-02-27
Location(s) Facet:: Site Banda 27
Subjects:: Red paint; Bowl; Neutron Activation Analysis
Subjects Facet:: Archaeology; Pottery; Artifacts (Antiquities)
Identifier:: FS01-119B, INAA Banda 27-7
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. N. Leith Smith
Date searchable:: 2001
Date searchable:: 2001-02-27
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Source:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Location(s):: Banda 27;8.191119, -2.16954
Date Digitized:: 2016
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Commentary:: Slide scanned by Ann B. Stahl
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.191119, -2.16954

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