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:

BowlHeight8,6 cm
Width4,3 cm
StemLength6 cm
Length total27,5 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialmessing (metaal)
Techniquecire perdue, gegoten metaal
Colourgelig
Other materialstouw (organisch materiaal), hout
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentAfrika
Region InternationalWest-Afrika
CountryKameroen
Region NationalGraslanden
EthnicityBamum
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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