Yan tong (chin.) | Photographer: | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Description in: Mueller, Herbert: Contributions to the ethnography of the Lolo. Catalogue of the Weiss Collection in the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin. Baessler-Archiv, vol. III, Berlin, 1913, page 66 (figure 29 and text): "The pipe consists of a cylindrical bowl and an iron pipe of considerable length inserted at right angles to it. The pipe measures 14 cm in the part firmly attached to the bowl and 20.5 cm in the other loose part and is decorated with narrow strips of dissolved brass at the mouthpiece and at the ends where they meet. The bowl itself, which has a height of 5 cm and a diameter of about 2 cm (slightly less at the base), consists of a cylinder made of white stone or clay, into which a funnel-shaped opening is cut at the top to hold the tobacco, and is decorated at the top and bottom with a wide brass strip with copper wire attached at the extreme ends. Small brass discs also surround the mouth of the pipe and its end. The shape of the pipe is reminiscent of a wooden tobacco pipe as used in Assam." This object is considered a war loss. (Comment: Siegmar Nahser, 2007).
Cataloguing data
Length: 16,3 cm
Diameter: 2,3 cm