Museum number:
| APM 958 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| constricted straps, spatula shape |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of wood with high funnel shape bowl fluidly continuing in a long heel shape ending in a spatula-shaped end, small and subtle stem insert. At one-third of the pipe a small and subtle stem protrudes out of the bowl, meant for a reed stem (missing). The lower end decorated with one carved double strap and two rows of roughly carved zigzag motifs. |
Date:
| Period | 1900 - 1925 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 0.91 in (2.3 cm) |
| Width | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 0.39 in (1 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | funnel shape |
| Material | wood |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | brown |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Australia and Oceania |
| Region international | Melanesia |
| Country | Papua New Guinea |
| Region national | Bird's Head Peninsula / Doberai Peninsula |
| Ethnicity | Apokajos |
Acquisition
| Year | 2003 |
| Provenance | 's-Hertogenbosch, Ruud van Thiel |
| Utrecht, Douwe Egberts Pijpenkamer, 1963-2003, nr 389 | |
| Zeist, G. de Kruijff, antiquair, 1960-1963 | |
| Zeist, collectie Henk van der Hoef, <1935-1960 | |
| Nieuw-Guinea, Papoea, pater Geurtjes |
Comments
| Wordt vanwege de herkomst een vogelkoppijp genoemd naar de vorm van dat deel van Nieuw-Guinea. Het roer werd van de pen van een stekelvarken, soms ook vogelbot of riet gemaakt. Beknopt besproken als aanwinst in Nieuwsbericht Pijpenkabinet, 1-1, december 2004. |
Exhibition
| Utrecht, Douwe Egberts Pijpenkamer, permanente presentatie, c. 1970-c. 1995. |
| Arnhem, Openluchtmuseum, pijpencollectie in paviljoen Sparenburg, september 2004 - januari 2015. |
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