Museum number:
| APM 13.502 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| mask heads, cable morif |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with high funnel shape bowl, flat round bottom with leak hole and ascending stem with smooth end. Bowl around decorated with three identical round human masks, the space between with dots and oval shapes. Bowl opening outward a cable edge. Bowl base small cowrie shells. Original wooden stem with carved geometrical decoration in which zigzag bands and recesses for coloured glass or bone, the end piece with concentric lines. |
Date:
| Period | 1880 - 1930 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 10.24 in (26 cm) |
| Width | 5.51 in (14 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 9.25 in (23.5 cm) |
| Length total | 35.83 in (91 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | funnel shape |
| Material | pottery (ceramic) |
| Technique | hand-formed |
| Colour | brown black |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Africa |
| Region international | West Africa |
| Country | Cameroon |
| Region national | Grasslands |
| Ethnicity | Bamileke |
Acquisition
| Year | 1993 |
| Provenance | Rotterdam, Steven van de Raadt, African Art |
| Soest, collectie Ger Luttik, <1985-1992 |
Literature
| Don Duco, Figuratieve terracotta tabakspijpen uit Kameroen. LeidenVVE Jaarboek, /1e lustrumnummer, 2017. p 33, afb 12. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Pijpen uit donker Afrika", 11 april 1993 - 4 juli 1993. |
| Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001. |
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