This pipe, with a dark glossy patina, has been carved to suggest the form of an elephant. Its six ovoid bowls suggest a series of legs, and a serrated ridge joining the bowls and extending into the mouthpiece represents the trunk. Although there are pipes in public collections with multiple bowls, none have these anthropomorphic qualities. For example, see A Wanless, 'Public pleasures: smoking and snuff-taking in Southern Africa', Art and ambiguity, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1991, fig 120, which has five bowls.