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Click here to subscribeA Victorian stereoscopic viewer dated Pat'd April 20, Spet 28th 1897 complete with approx 40 various cards of military, African and topographical interest,.showing scenes of Santa Claus, Ladysmith and Lombard's Kep S.A, Brother John's First Christmas, On th Benches in the park, a street view Constantinople, The Christmas Dinner, African tribal scenes, Palentine, Gun Carriage Coffin, Royal Mourners, Forth Bridge, Chef Kupuzi and two daughters, the home sweet home of an Arab, Egypt, all cards marked Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours.
African: three tribal pieces comprising a 19th century Bushman's decorated pipe used to filter tobacco form Namibia, a decorative short stemmed double-bowled pipe from North Nguni (possibly Zulu) and a BaTonga pipe with clay bowl formed as an oxen head and fixed to a reed stem with copper strips, the base of the pipe with barbed metal spike which holds the pipe upright when not in use, by repute purchased from a BaTonga tribesman in 1938 at the junction of the Zambesi and Sanyati rivers in Rhodesia prior to the flooding of the Kariba Dam
African: three tribal pieces comprising a double-bowled wooden pipe with a carved snake coiled around the mouthpiece, early 20th century from Cape Nguni - Thembu, a Bamileke pipe with decorated terracotta bowl of repeated geometric frogs attached to an usual wooden stem from the Cameroons, Western Province and a Dink decorated clay pip bowl from Sudan (3)
Ethnographic Interest A large Samoan tribal wooden bowl of circular form with carved scrolls to rim, 59cm wide; and a turtle shell, 33cm long (2) Provenance: Collected by Donald Macleod in the early to mid 20th century while working for Alexander Stephen & Sons of Linthouse Shipyard, Govan and in his travels to the South Pacific while working for the company.