Pipe-bowl. Made of red ware pottery slipped red and blackened in places. The pipe-bowl and stem socket are joined together with two openings at the top, there is a perforation between the bowl and stem socket. The base is flat. The pipe-bowl is decorated with a pot-bellied ?human figure with rounded cheeks and forehead raising both hands to the chin, wearing a curved headdress. The stem socket is decorated with incised bands of horizontal lines and dots. [AB [OPS Move] 21/9/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pipe-bowl. Made of red ware pottery slipped red and blackened in places. The pipe-bowl and stem socket are joined together with two openings at the top, there is a perforation between the bowl and stem socket. The base is flat. The pipe-bowl is decorated with a pot-bellied ?human figure with rounded cheeks and forehead raising both hands to the chin, wearing a curved headdress. The stem socket is decorated with incised bands of horizontal lines and 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 Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Slipped, Process Repaired (local), Process Modelled, Process Moulded
Dimensions: Depth: max 49 mm, Width: max 78 mm, Length: max 149 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.1316 Other numbers: 295

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