Zoomorphic Pipe

Shilluk people, South Sudan, 1st half 20th c.

Ceramic, wood, gourd, animal skin, and fiber

19.50” h  (49.53 cm)

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Shilluk pipes, apparently executed in the form of a hyena, are whimsically peculiar objects possibly created by a single hand or workshop. They are not all that common, and of the examples that I have had over the years, this is but one of two with the pipe stem intact.

 
 
 
 
 

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