M0018776: Decorated bamboo containers and tobacco pipe, New Guinea

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Decorated bamboo container, probably New Guinea

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Decorated bamboo tobacco pipe, New Guinea

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Decorated bamboo container, Indonesia

Photograph of three tobacco smoking items from New Guinea: a decorated bamboo container for tobacco leaf with stopper; a bamboo tobacco pipe etched with a geometric design; and a bamboo container decorated with a floral design. The container for tobacco leaf was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1935 and given accession number A159582. The pipe was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and given accession number A300214. The other container was purchased at auction by the Museum in 1931 and given accessioned number A201717. The first two items are now held by the Science Museum (object numbers A159582 and A300214) and the container was transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966.

August 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index cards for the items: A159582, A300214 and A201717

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.