Museum number:
| APM 14.666 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| sitting monkey |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with figural bowl, rund flat bottom with leak hole and up going stem with smooth end. Bowl sitting monkey with sickle-shaped face, the two hands on the chin, the legs folded with eight toes along the base. Bowl base a leak hole with fabric stop. Stem roughened with six constricted rings. Original long branch wood stem with small knots, stem end pointed. Fabric stop in leak hole. |
Date:
| Period | 1930 - 1960 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 5.24 in (13.3 cm) |
| Width | 2.28 in (5.8 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 3.94 in (10 cm) |
| Length total | 23.03 in (58.5 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | pottery (ceramic) |
| Technique | hand-formed |
| Colour | brown black |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Africa |
| Region international | West Africa |
| Country | Cameroon |
| Region national | Grasslands |
| Ethnicity | Wum (?) |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Amsterdam, veilinghuis de Nieuwe Zon, lot 3924 |
Literature
| François Raty, Significations symboliques et rituelles exprimées à travers la pipe dans le Grassland Camerounais. Liège, 2002. afb 69. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: La tête de cette pipe anthropozoomorphe est caractéristique du singe; les arcades soucilières sont proéminentes, la mâchoire est puissante et les dents sont bien apparentes. Wum (?), H. (abusievelijk) 10 cm. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, serre, vitrine Kameroen, v.a. 2000. |
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