Museum number:

APM 13.498

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

gourd pipe

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of a gourd with round fruit with long stem. Fruit decorated with braid of copper wire in geometric patterns. Bowl of earthenware with funnel shape with short straight stem and small stub band. Bowl head of a man with opened eyes wearing a flat cap. Eyes filled in with pewter.

Date:

Period 1900 - 1950


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight9.06 in (23 cm)
Length12.2 in (31 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape funnel shape
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourblack-baked
Other materialsgourd (organic material)
Finish tin
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalCentral-Africa
CountryDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Region nationalKatanga (Tanganyika region)
EthnicityTabwa
Acquisition
Year 1993
Provenance Rotterdam, Steven van de Raadt, African Art
Tanzania, c. 1985
Comments
Tabwa-volk leeft in het uiterste oosten van Zaïre.
Vgl. M. Maurer & Allen F. Roberts, Tabwa, The rising of a new moon..., Washington, 1986, p 179-181. Betekenis van de pijp met afbeelding van vergelijkbaar stuk (met dubbele ketel).
Stichting Pijpenkabinet, ansichtkaart.
Literature
Benedict Goes, 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 70, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 70, foto. Dit exemplaar.
José Manuel Lopes, Cachimbos, Marcas, Fabricantes e Artesaos. Lisbon, 2004. p 22. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Pijpen uit donker Afrika", 11 april 1993 - 4 juli 1993.
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 9, v.a. 2001.

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