Museum number:
| APM 14.666 |
Subcollection:
| etnografische pijpen |
Title:
| tabakspijp |
Keyword:
| sitting monkey |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with figural bowl, rund flat bottom with leak hole and up going stem with smooth end. Bowl sitting monkey with sickle-shaped face, the two hands on the chin, the legs folded with eight toes along the base. Bowl base a leak hole with fabric stop. Stem roughened with six constricted rings. Original long branch wood stem with small knots, stem end pointed. Fabric stop in leak hole. |
Date:
| Period | 1930 - 1960 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 13,3 cm |
| Width | 5,8 cm | |
| Stem | Length | 10 cm |
| Length total | 58,5 cm |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | manchetpijp |
| Pipe shape | figuraal |
| Material | aardewerk (ceramiek) |
| Technique | handvorm |
| Colour | bruinzwart |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Contintent | Afrika |
| Region International | West-Afrika |
| Country | Kameroen |
| Region National | Graslanden |
| Ethnicity | Wum (?) |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Amsterdam, veilinghuis de Nieuwe Zon, lot 3924 |
Literature
| François Raty, Significations symboliques et rituelles exprimées à travers la pipe dans le Grassland Camerounais. Luik, 2002. afb 69. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: La tête de cette pipe anthropozoomorphe est caractéristique du singe; les arcades soucilières sont proéminentes, la mâchoire est puissante et les dents sont bien apparentes. Wum (?), H. (abusievelijk) 10 cm. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, serre, vitrine Kameroen, v.a. 2000. |
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