Museum number:

APM 14.760

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

geometric bands

Description:

Tabakspijp van aardewerk met twee gelijkvormige cilindrische ketels op verzwaarde voet en oplopende steel met glad mancheteind. Ketels aan de basis band met geruit patroon, de linker ketel met verticale enkele koorden, de rechter met banen van vier koorden. Steel rondom band met geruit patroon. Basis verticale ingekerfde streepjes.

Date:

Period 1910 - 1950


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.07 in (7.8 cm)
Width2.6 in (6.6 cm)
StemLength1.77 in (4.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape twin bowl
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrown black
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
EthnicityBamileke (?)
Acquisition
Year 1997
Provenance Foumban, Mama El Hadgnjikom Salifoe
Kameroen, Bamileke, Banso, 1997
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, serre, vitrine Kameroen, v.a. 2000.

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