Tobacco pipe with bright red pottery bowl painted in black on wooden stem. [CW [OPS Move] 21/9/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Tobacco pipe with bright red pottery bowl painted in black on wooden stem. [CW [OPS Move] 21/9/2016]
Long description: Tobacco pipe with bright red pottery bowl painted in black on wooden stem with tubular ferrous metal mouthpiece. The pipe bowl is in the form of a squatting human figure with both raised raised to the chin and wearing an elaborate headdress. For the carved wooden stem with ferrous metal mouthpiece see 1942.13.283 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 21/9/2016]
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, Process Modelled
Dimensions: Depth: max 96 mm total, Depth: max 96 mm, Width: max 106 mm total, Width: max 106 mm, Length: max 617 mm total, Length: max 221 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.283.1 Other numbers: 527

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