Museum number:

APM 15.338

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

geometric decoration

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with large size with cylindrical bowl, flat bottom with leak hole and rising stem for wooden insert stem. Bowl two concentric relief bands, the upper twisted cords, the bottom wide and flat on which circular portrait masks, with the remaining space the ground dotted, middle part consists of three layers, the lower and upper with each three upright ovals on which a stylized geometric frog, the middle with portrait masks, the remaining space with dotted fond.

Date:

Period 1955 - 1970


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight12.6 in (32 cm)
BowlHeight12.6 in (32 cm)
Width4.92 in (12.5 cm)
StemLength8.66 in (22 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrown grey
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
EthnicityBamileke
Acquisition
Year 1998
Provenance Leiden, Arnold Wentholt
Nijmegen, particuliere collectie, <1980-1998
Comments
Verzameld rond 1970.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001.

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