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1942.13.140.1

Pipe bowl, made of varnished black pottery. For the wooden pipe see 1942.13.140 .2. [CW [OPS move] 10/10/2016]

1942.13.140.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pipe bowl, made of varnished black pottery. For the wooden pipe see 1942.13.140 .2. [CW [OPS move] 10/10/2016]
Long description
Pipe bowl, made of varnished black pottery, part of a pipe on a carved cylindrical wooden stem with tubular metal mouthpiece. The pipe bowl is two-storied, with the upper portion curving away from the base. The upper portion of the pipe bowl has broken off. The rim of the pipe bowl is covered with moulded animal heads, possibly frogs. the lower portion is decorated with moulded human figures with wide smiles and hands clasped to their chests. The pipe socket is jointed to the base of the pipe bowl at an acute angle and a connecting arch joins the rim of the pipe socket with the upper portion of the pipe bowl. For the cylindrical carved wooden pipe stem stained red with tubular metal mouthpiece see 1942.13.140 .2. [CW [OPS move] 10/10/2016]
Geographical reference
Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1942
Date collected
By 1942
Acquisition information
Donated: 1942
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Modelled, Process Decorated
Dimensions
Height: max 519 mm total, Height: max 72 mm total, Height 188 mm, Height: max 72 mm, Width: max 167 mm total, Width: max 167 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1942.13.140.1 Other numbers: 550

Search terms: Narcotic, Pottery, Figure, Pipe, Animal Figure

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