Museum number:
| APM 15.073 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| standing German soldier |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of bronze with a figural bowl, without heel, moist hole and upgoing straight stem widening to the end. Bowl standing German soldier with almond shaped face with negeroid characteristics, cap with flap, clothing buttons and booties. Stem attached at the buttocks having a conical shape and at the end a double concentric ring, narrow connection band from bowl to stub. |
Date:
| Period | 1910 - 1930 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 6.81 in (17.3 cm) |
| Width | 2.83 in (7.2 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 4.72 in (12 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | brass (metal) |
| Technique | lost-wax process |
| Colour | bronze brown |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Africa |
| Region international | West Africa |
| Country | Cameroon |
| Region national | Grasslands |
| Ethnicity | Bamileke |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Douala, Kouotou Ousmanfé |
| Kameroen, Bamum, 1996 |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001. |
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