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artefacts collected by Ursula Graham Bower |
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stone-bowled tobacco pipe |
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Zemi stone-bowled tobacco pipe. From village Mandu, Manipur state. Collected Sept. 1944. cost Rs 2/-. Only one seen in 5 years. |
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Stone bowl : nkeu-li-peh A |
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water bowl (bamboo) : nkeu-rup-pu-bung B |
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mouth-piece : nkeu-bung-htim C |
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Namkiabuing of Impoi says that his ancestor left a stone pipe-bowl buried on the house site when the old site was abandoned. It has not been recovered during reoccupation of the village, and the house-site is now unknown. |
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Haichangnang says he has seen one once before, in Guilong, when a young man; the only other specimen he has seen is my own. The type is obsolete in North Cachar Hills area. |