| Native Name |
Ni-kiseri |
| Object Number |
A458A |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Ainu |
| Provenience |
Japan | Hokkaido |
| Date Made |
Before 1901 |
| Section |
Asian |
| Materials |
Wood | Metal |
| Description |
Ni-kiseri (ニキセリ). A smoking pipe that is part of a smoking kit.Tamapaku-o-p (タンパクオプ). Shell ojime piece is made of cowry shell (Cypraeidae). |
| Length |
32.5 cm |
| Width |
2 cm |
| Thickness |
1 cm |
| Credit Line |
Gift of Dr. Hiram M. Hiller, 1901 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| Ainu Bunka Shinkō Kenkyū Suishin Kikō. アイヌの工芸 : ペンシルバニア大学考古学人類学博物館ヒラーコレクション = Ainu collections : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Hiller Collections. Sapporo: Ainu Bunka Shinkō Kenkyū Suishin Kikō, 2008. See: Fig. 46 pg. 34 |
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| Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato Dubreuil. Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Association with University of Washington Press, 1999. See: Fig. 42.15, pg. 297 |
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