Museum number:

APM 9.730

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

crouched figure, hands to the beard

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with funnel-shaped figural bowl, flat round bottom with leak hole and rising stem without stub. Bowl squatting person, necklace with jewel, the arms along tho body, the hands on the belly, smooth headdress. Original wooden stem with twice three carved figures.

Date:

Period 1900 - 1940


Dimensions:

BowlHeight5.2 in (13.2 cm)
Width1.81 in (4.6 cm)
StemLength3.94 in (10 cm)
Length total17.72 in (45 cm)
Weight59 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrownish red
Other materialswood
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
Acquisition
Year 1988
Provenance Vlaardingen, Joop Groen
Soest, collectie Ger Luttik, <1975-1986
Literature
Benedict Goes, 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 2, frontispiece. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 2, frontispiece. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Rookgerei vol van symboliek, tabakspijpen uit de Graslanden van Kameroen. Amsterdam, 1999. afb 4a-c. Dit exemplaar (alleen de steel).
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Pijpen uit donker Afrika", 11 april 1993 - 4 juli 1993.
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, serre, vitrine Kameroen, v.a. 2000.

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