Museum number:

APM 20.084

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

longitudinal ribs

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with a conical bowl with a flat base, a short ascending stem with a small ring at the end. Bowl along cannelures that end below the bowl opening and go up to the base to a wide smooth concentric orbit with fine vertical stripes around the foot. Between the bowl and stem a ball-shaped connecting strap with a hole for a securing cord. Stem end in relief two concentric rings between which dots.

Date:

Period 1700 - 1850


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.09 in (5.3 cm)
Width2.01 in (5.1 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Weight64 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape conic
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourgray black
Finish engobe, creme
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryNigeria
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance Ghana, Kumasi, S. Fofane, handelaar
Nigeria, Ibadan, antiekhandel, 2009

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