Museum number:

APM 7.711

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

rosette, roughened surface

Description:

Tabakspijp van aardewerk met bolle ketel, zonder hiel met oplopende steel en glad steeleind. Ketel met vernauwde opening met verzwaarde ronde filt. Ketel rozet van ingedrukte stippen. Band om ketelbasis, de steel geruwd. Rode engobe.

Date:

Period 1900 - 1940


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.93 in (4.9 cm)
Width1.42 in (3.6 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Weight68 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape spherical
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourred-brown
Finish engobe, rood
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryNigeria
EthnicityFulani (Fulbe)
Acquisition
Year 1981
Provenance Amsterdam, Peter de Boer, Kalpa Art
Nigeria, etnografische handel, 1980

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