Pipe with black pottery bowl decorated with human faces in relief. [MOBB [OPS move] 24/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pipe with black pottery bowl decorated with human faces in relief. [MOBB [OPS move] 24/10/2016]
Long description: Pipe with black pottery bowl decorated with human faces in relief. The section at the bottom of the pipe bowl is decorated with bands of V shapes in relief, and the socket at the back is decorated with cross-hatching and a band of grooved lines. The socket is full of wound textile which also extends out a small hole in the bottom. [MOBB [OPS move] 24/10/2016]
Geographical reference: Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon; Bamenda
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, Material Textile, Process Moulded, Process Decorated
Dimensions: Depth: max 56 mm, Width: max 78 mm, Length: max 188 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.271 Other numbers: 88

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