Museum number:
| APM 20.282 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| lizard |
Description:
| Tabakspijp van hout met slurfvorm ketel, zonder hiel en rechte tige. Ketel voorzijde in hoogreliëf gestileerde hagedis, de vier poten om de ketel, de ketel zelf met lijnen waartussen arceringen versierd, ketel steelzijde cirkel met cirkelvormige paarlemoer inleg. Later busje met buffelhoornen steel met afgeplat eind en knoop. |
Date:
| Period | 1880 - 1910 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 2.32 in (5.9 cm) |
| Width | 1.61 in (4.1 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 2.17 in (5.5 cm) |
| Length total | 4.72 in (12 cm) | |
| Weight | 22 gram |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | trunk shape |
| Material | wood |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | brown |
| Other materials | buffalo horn (animal material) |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Australia and Oceania |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Ethnicity | Maori |
Acquisition
| Year | 2010 |
| Provenance | Londen, veilinghuis Christie's, lot 617 |
| Letchmore Heath, Trevor Barton sr., <1980-2008 |
Literature
| J. Trevor Barton, Ethnographica described: Maori pipes from New Zealand. ParisLe Livre de la Pipe 1996, /, 1996. p 37. Dit exemplaar. Onderschrift: Maori pipe bowl in the form of a European clay pipe decorated with lizard motif. |
| Don Duco, Tabakspijpen van de Maori. Amsterdam, 2010. afb 1. Dit exemplaar. |
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