Pipe-bowl of red ware pottery. For the pipe stem see 1942.13.138 .2 [AB [OPS Move] 7/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pipe-bowl of red ware pottery. For the pipe stem see 1942.13.138 .2 [AB [OPS Move] 7/10/2016]
Long description: Pipe-bowl. Of red ware pottery ?slipped and painted dark red. Pipe-bowl and stem socket are attached at an angle with an arch between the two openings. The pipe-bowl has a bearded human head as decoration, there is a cylindrical headress with incised vertical and horizontal lines. There is a horizontal band of rings around the stem socket. For the pipe stem see 1942.13.138 .2 [AB [OPS Move] 7/10/2016]
Geographical reference: Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Modelled, Process Painted
Dimensions: Height: max 452 mm total, Height: max 106 mm total, Height: max 122 mm, Height: max 106 mm, Width: max 47 mm total, Width: max 47 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.138.1 Other numbers: 501

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