Museum number:

APM 7.043

Subcollection:

etnografische pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

portrait mask

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of bronze with cylindrical bowl on stem with a pointed front, leak hole under the bowl and slightly rising stem with thin cuff band. Bowl accentuated with a rim on top and base, front embossed portrait mask with hairstyle in two circulars. Connection belt between bowl and stem. Original bronze stem with a locking ring, the first part thicker with concentric rings. Stem end disc shaped button.

Date:

Period 1920 - 1960


Dimensions:

BowlHeight10,6 cm
Width4,5 cm
StemLength8,5 cm
Length total27,5 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape cilindrisch
Materialmessing (metaal)
Techniquecire perdue
Colourbronsbruin
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentAfrika
Region InternationalWest-Afrika
CountryKameroen
Region NationalGraslanden
EthnicityTikar
Acquisition
Year 1997
Provenance Douala, Kouotou Ousmanfé
Kameroen, Tikar, 1997
Exhibition
Arnhem, Openluchtmuseum, pijpencollectie in paviljoen Sparenburg, september 2004 - januari 2015.

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