Museum number:

APM 7.043

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

portrait mask

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of bronze with cylindrical bowl on stem with a pointed front, leak hole under the bowl and slightly rising stem with thin cuff band. Bowl accentuated with a rim on top and base, front embossed portrait mask with hairstyle in two circulars. Connection belt between bowl and stem. Original bronze stem with a locking ring, the first part thicker with concentric rings. Stem end disc shaped button.

Date:

Period 1920 - 1960


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.17 in (10.6 cm)
Width1.77 in (4.5 cm)
StemLength3.35 in (8.5 cm)
Length total10.83 in (27.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialbrass (metal)
Techniquelost-wax process
Colourbronze brown
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
EthnicityTikar
Acquisition
Year 1997
Provenance Douala, Kouotou Ousmanfé
Kameroen, Tikar, 1997
Exhibition
Arnhem, Openluchtmuseum, pijpencollectie in paviljoen Sparenburg, september 2004 - januari 2015.

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