Museum number:
| APM 14.337 |
Subcollection:
| prehistoric pipes |
Title:
| nose pipe |
Keyword:
| nose pipe with two short stems |
Description:
Snuff pipe or nose pipe made of earthenware with low spherical bowl, weighted base with almost flat bottom and two thin short stems with smooth stem ends. Bowl around pressed horizontal dashed lines. Bowl on both sides at the stem flat lobe. Red-tinted slip on bowl opening, bowl bottom and stems. |
Date:
| Period | 800 - 1500 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 1.5 in (3.8 cm) |
| Width | 1.69 in (4.3 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.57 in (4 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stem pipe |
| Pipe shape | bulbous |
| Material | pottery (ceramic) |
| Technique | hand-formed |
| Colour | red-brown |
| Finish | engobe, rood |
| Traces of use | ongerookt |
Production
| Continent | South America |
| Region international | Latin America |
| Country | Costa Rica (?) |
Acquisition
| Year | 1995 |
| Provenance | Amsterdam, Dick Meijer, antiquiteiten |
| Rotterdam, particulier bezit, <1985-1995 |
Comments
| Vgl. APM 21.041 vergelijkbaar object. Varianten in Costa Rica, Museo Nacional en in het American Museum of Natural History. Vgl. Francis Robicsek, The Smoking Gods, Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion, Oklahoma, 1978, p 8, fig 10. Vergelijkbaar stuk, onderschrift: Nose pipes from Guanacaste, Costa Rica. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Toppers, twee jaar aanwinsten Pijpenkabinet", voorjaar-zomer 1996. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, 2001-2013. |
| Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, v.a. 2013. |
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