M0018777: Decorated bamboo: container and tobacco pipes, Southeast Asia

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Decorated bamboo: A) container B) tobacco pipe, C) tobacco pipe

Photograph of three tobacco smoking items from Southeast Asia: title: a bamboo container from Indonesia; a tobacco pipe from the Solomon Islands; and a tobacco pipe from New Guinea. The container was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection. The Solomon Islands pipe was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and is now held by the Science Museum (object number A123484). The New Guinea pipe was purchased at auction by the Museum in 1931 and given accession number A201720. It 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 card for one of the items: A201720

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.