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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 860353, member: 8267"]Interesting. I notice they don't give any more specific provenance beyond "Africa", and describe it as a "smoking pot", which turns out to be a very difficult term to research <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />. I assume they mean a type of water pipe, for smoking tobacco.</p><p>My feeling is that these may be from the Congo area, and may be related to pipes made by the Hemba/Luba, such as these:</p><p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QANx9u4lEbc/S97US3jeQCI/AAAAAAAAAHE/813ueb-8QUs/s320/African+Art_Himba+Calabash+tobacco+pipe+front.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://eafri.blogspot.com/2010/05/calabash-water-pipe-wood-tar-used.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eafri.blogspot.com/2010/05/calabash-water-pipe-wood-tar-used.html" rel="nofollow">http://eafri.blogspot.com/2010/05/calabash-water-pipe-wood-tar-used.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]197112[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 860353, member: 8267"]Interesting. I notice they don't give any more specific provenance beyond "Africa", and describe it as a "smoking pot", which turns out to be a very difficult term to research ;). I assume they mean a type of water pipe, for smoking tobacco. My feeling is that these may be from the Congo area, and may be related to pipes made by the Hemba/Luba, such as these: [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QANx9u4lEbc/S97US3jeQCI/AAAAAAAAAHE/813ueb-8QUs/s320/African+Art_Himba+Calabash+tobacco+pipe+front.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://eafri.blogspot.com/2010/05/calabash-water-pipe-wood-tar-used.html[/URL] [ATTACH=full]197112[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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