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:

BowlHeight13,3 cm
Width5,8 cm
StemLength10 cm
Length total58,5 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialaardewerk (ceramiek)
Techniquehandvorm
Colourbruinzwart
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentAfrika
Region InternationalWest-Afrika
CountryKameroen
Region NationalGraslanden
EthnicityWum (?)
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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