Red pottery bowl. For the carved cylindrical wooden pipe stem with tubular metal mouthpiece see 1942.13.287 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 5/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Red pottery bowl. For the carved cylindrical wooden pipe stem with tubular metal mouthpiece see 1942.13.287 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 5/10/2016]
Long description: Red pottery bowl belonging to a tobacco pipe on a cylindrical wooden stem with tubular metal mouthpiece. The lower half of the pipe bowl is modelled in a conventionalised ?bird's head design, the upper half slightly bent forward, the stem socket at an acute angle, with connecting arched bridge. For the carved cylindrical wooden pipe stem with tubular metal mouthpiece see 1942.13.287 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 5/10/2016]
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 Pigment, Material Pigment, Process Modelled, Process Painted
Dimensions: Height: max 55 mm total, Height: max 150 mm, Height: max 43 mm, Width: max 133 mm total, Width: max 130 mm, Length: max 493 mm total
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.287.1 Other numbers: 547

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