Museum number:
| APM 15.072 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| head negro with hair up |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of bronze with figural bowl, leak hole in the bottom of the bowl, without heel and straight stem with inconspicuous cuff. Bowl head of a negress with her hair raised with beaded strings. Stem end locking ring. Original bronze stem with concentric rings and three pearl rows and locking ring, a wooden stop as a connection between bowl and stem, stem end wedge-shaped knot. Lock string of rope. |
Date:
| Period | 1900 - 1940 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 3.39 in (8.6 cm) |
| Width | 1.69 in (4.3 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 2.36 in (6 cm) |
| Length total | 10.83 in (27.5 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | brass (metal) |
| Technique | lost-wax process, cast metal |
| Colour | yellowish |
| Other materials | rope (organic material), wood |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Africa |
| Region international | West Africa |
| Country | Cameroon |
| Region national | Grasslands |
| Ethnicity | Bamum |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Douala, Kouotou Ousmanfé |
| Kameroen, Bamum, 1996 |
Comments
| Gids Hachette, p ?. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001. |
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