Museum number:
| APM 15.072 |
Subcollection:
| etnografische pijpen |
Title:
| tabakspijp |
Keyword:
| head negro with hair up |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of bronze with figural bowl, leak hole in the bottom of the bowl, without heel and straight stem with inconspicuous cuff. Bowl head of a negress with her hair raised with beaded strings. Stem end locking ring. Original bronze stem with concentric rings and three pearl rows and locking ring, a wooden stop as a connection between bowl and stem, stem end wedge-shaped knot. Lock string of rope. |
Date:
| Period | 1900 - 1940 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 8,6 cm |
| Width | 4,3 cm | |
| Stem | Length | 6 cm |
| Length total | 27,5 cm |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | manchetpijp |
| Pipe shape | figuraal |
| Material | messing (metaal) |
| Technique | cire perdue, gegoten metaal |
| Colour | gelig |
| Other materials | touw (organisch materiaal), hout |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Contintent | Afrika |
| Region International | West-Afrika |
| Country | Kameroen |
| Region National | Graslanden |
| Ethnicity | Bamum |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Douala, Kouotou Ousmanfé |
| Kameroen, Bamum, 1996 |
Comments
| Gids Hachette, p ?. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001. |
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