Description (CMS Description)
Pipe with bowl made of crab’s claw.The pipe stem is a carved, hollow stick, with one end stopped with plant fibre. The whole stem is covered in patterns in red, black, yellow and white. Two main sections demonstrate white and red cross-hatching on a black background, and the third at the bowl end is black with short lines in white and yellow. The pipe bowl is the sharp end of one half of a crab’s claw which is held in place with resin or gum or pitch.
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Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) (Collector) Fredrick John Afford Bateman was a doctor in Alice Springs periodically between 1955 -1959, where he worked both in the hospital there and as a flying medic.Richard Bateman, the collector’s son, in correspondence with CUMAA adds: ‘It was a practice that all weapons, shields, knives were left outside the ward [at the Alice Spring Hospital] and were often unclaimed after the patients left the hospital.’
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Author: maa