Museum number:

APM 15.489

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

vertical lines between which dots

Description:

Tabakspijp van aardewerk met conische ketel, vlakke onderzijde met lekgat en oplopende steel zonder manchet. Ketel overlangs tussen een concentrische ring verticale lijnen waartussen stippen. Filt dubbele slingerende kabelrand. Ketelbasis verzwaard met visgraatmotief. Steel onderhelft geruwd, bovenhelft baan met concentrische ringen.

Date:

Period 1880 - 1950


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.94 in (10 cm)
Width1.73 in (4.4 cm)
StemLength3.15 in (8 cm)
Weight131 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape conic
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrown black
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Douala, Kouotou Ousmanfé
Kameroen, Mbounda region, 1998

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