Museum number:

APM 12.742

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

geometric decoration

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with conical bowl with weighted upper edge on flat round base with rising stem with smooth cuff at height of the bowl opening. Top edge with two pointed protrusions on both sides between which a stylized mask with eyes and nose, bowl front rectangle with incised geometric pattern, five narrowed lines along the bottom edge. Bottom leak hole. Original straight wooden stem with decoration of a band with wound copper wire past the middle and around the stem end.

Date:

Period 1880 - 1930


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.92 in (12.5 cm)
Width3.66 in (9.3 cm)
StemLength4.92 in (12.5 cm)
Length total39.37 in (100 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape conic
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrown black
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
EthnicityBamileke
Acquisition
Year 1991
Provenance Parijs, Jean-Pierre Laprugne, rue Mazarine
Parijs, particuliere verzameling, <1980-1991
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Pijpen uit donker Afrika", 11 april 1993 - 4 juli 1993.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, serre, vitrine Kameroen, v.a. 2000.

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