A wooden pipe, with a wide, lead covered bowl with a narrow aperture. The tapered, and slightly upcurved, stem is bound with a strip of hide, widely spaced at the bowl end and more closely towards the moutpiece. Part of the strip of hide is suspended from near the bowl end and is divided into separate lengths with pairs of glass beads at the end of each. The underside of the bowl is decorated with slits radiating from the centre, through which the wood of the bowl is visible.
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