Museum number:
| APM 20.280 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| three mask heads with protruding tongues |
Description:
| Tabakspijp van bruyère met Canadian ketel, zonder hiel en lang recht afgeplatte tige. Ketel rondom driemaal een makserkop met tatoeages, de tong uitgestoken. Steel twee banen van vier halve cirkels. Oorspronkelijke montage met barnstenen mondstuk met knoop.Ketel gebarsten door uitgezette koolstoflaag. |
Date:
| Period | 1900 - 1910 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 1.81 in (4.6 cm) |
| Width | 1.26 in (3.2 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 3.15 in (8 cm) |
| Length total | 4.72 in (12 cm) | |
| Weight | 29 gram |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | London |
| Material | briar (wood) |
| Technique | milled, hand carved |
| Colour | brown |
| Other materials | amber (stone) |
| Other colours | orange yellow |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | England |
| Continent | Australia and Oceania |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Ethnicity #0 | Maori |
Acquisition
| Year | 2010 |
| Provenance | Londen, veilinghuis Christie's, lot 617 |
| Letchmore Heath, Trevor Barton sr., <1980-2008 |
Literature
| Don Duco, Tabakspijpen van de Maori. Amsterdam, 2010. afb 3. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| An Exhibition of Pipe Smoking through the Ages, c. 1975. Dit exemplaar. |
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