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Part of BaTonga culture and the ncelwa is but a smoking instrument and amaterial object occupying an important domestic space within the BaTonga culturalsphere. ncelwais a smoking pipe handled or a semiotic artefactactual piece for theBaTonga. It is called the ndombondoor mfukoin other BaTonga dialects. It is used byBaTonga women for smoking tobacco. Men have their own smoking pipe which issmaller than the ncelwacalled the chete.The BaTonga ncelwa is a long handled squash and it has a hole on one end where amale clay stem is fixed to hold embers and polya. The calabash-gourd to which the claymale stem is attached acts as a water chamber while the long second squash-stem isthen used to inhale the smoke from the gradually burning polya; placed inside the claymale stem but not directly on top of the embers. The polya is burnt slowly (catalysed bysorghum) by conduction; and the smoke bubbles through water to give the women whosmoke it an extended filtered smoking pleasure. Given that it is a womens smokingpipe, it is also decorated with colourful beads and largely colour coded based on the choices of the owner.
TONGA WOMANS PIPE
ON DISPLAY STAND
CALABASH GOURD, CLAY
SIZE : 50CM (H) X 18CM X 18CM
BASE SIZE : 1,5CM (H) X 12CM X 12CM
TOTAL HEIGHT : 55CM
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