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Pipe

Tinguian people, Luzon, Philippines, d. early 20th c.

Clay and wood with plaited dyed cane

Ex–old English collection

6⅝” l (16.83 cm)

Price: $450

 
 

This simple but elegant pipe comes from the Tinguian people of the larger Igorot cultural complex of the Cordillera Central of Luzon, northern Philippines. The woven fiber on the pipe stem makes this example quite unusual. Old numbering on the mouthpiece: L137 / No.85.

REFERENCES

Cole, Fay-Cooper, and Albert Gale. The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life

of a Philippine Tribe. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1922, p. 432.

 
 
 
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