Museum number:

APM 13.502

Subcollection:

etnografische pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

mask heads, cable morif

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with high funnel shape bowl, flat round bottom with leak hole and ascending stem with smooth end. Bowl around decorated with three identical round human masks, the space between with dots and oval shapes. Bowl opening outward a cable edge. Bowl base small cowrie shells. Original wooden stem with carved geometrical decoration in which zigzag bands and recesses for coloured glass or bone, the end piece with concentric lines.

Date:

Period 1880 - 1930


Dimensions:

BowlHeight26 cm
Width14 cm
StemLength23,5 cm
Length total91 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape trechtervorm
Materialaardewerk (ceramiek)
Techniquehandvorm
Colourbruinzwart
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentAfrika
Region InternationalWest-Afrika
CountryKameroen
Region NationalGraslanden
EthnicityBamileke
Acquisition
Year 1993
Provenance Rotterdam, Steven van de Raadt, African Art
Soest, collectie Ger Luttik, <1975-1992
Literature
Don Duco, Figuratieve terracotta tabakspijpen uit Kameroen. LeidenVVE Jaarboek, /1e lustrumnummer, 2017. p 33, afb 12. Dit exemplaar.
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, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001.

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