Museum number:

APM 15.484

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

slim face

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with figural bowl, circular flat bottom with leak hole and rising stem without stub. Bowl slim shape modeled to a face with headdress with elliptical bowl opening with lines, the neck of the figure with fine concentric rings, weighted bowl base with fish bone motive. Stem roughened, the end concentric rings. Between bowl and stem end piercing for locking cord. Leak hole stopped with cloth.

Date:

Period 1890 - 1930


Dimensions:

BowlHeight5.75 in (14.6 cm)
Width2.44 in (6.2 cm)
StemLength3.94 in (10 cm)
Weight220 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourblack
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
EthnicityBamessing
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Douala, Kouotou Ousmanfé
Kameroen, Bamessing, 1998
Literature
Don Duco, Rookgerei vol van symboliek, tabakspijpen uit de Graslanden van Kameroen. Amsterdam, 1999. afb 15ab. Dit exemplaar.

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