Pipe-bowl, made of pottery slipped red and painted black. [AB [OPS Move] 21/9/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pipe-bowl, made of pottery slipped red and painted black. [AB [OPS Move] 21/9/2016]
Long description: Pipe-bowl. Made of pottery slipped red and painted black. The pipe-bowl and stem socket are joined together with two openings at the top. The pipe-bowl is decorated with a sitting human figure, one hand is raised to the chin and one resting on a knee. The figure is wearing a curved headdress with incised lines. The features of the figure are painted black. The stem socket is covered with incised dots. [AB [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, Material Pigment, Process Slipped, Process Painted, Process Modelled, Process Moulded
Dimensions: Depth: max 63 mm, Width: max 65 mm, Length: max 142 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.1303 Other numbers: 194

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