M0018774: Tobacco pipe, carved wood mounted with iron, West Africa

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Tobacco pipe, carved wood mounted with iron

Photograph of a tobacco pipe, carved wood mounted with iron and with various instruments attached. Thought to be West African. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1925 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R2829/1937). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

August 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R2829/1937

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.