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Tobacco pipe

Pipe consisting of 4 main parts: bronze pipe leading to the mouth, centre pipe made of brass- or tin-plated wood, angled connecting pipe and concave-cylindrical bowl; due to its size and decoration more of an everyday object than a prestige item; centre pipe with honeycomb-shaped facial reliefs; printed decoration on the connecting piece and bowl

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Tabakspfeife
Material/Technique
metal, wood (plant material)
moulded, carved
Object genre
domestic utensil
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2320
Other number(s)
2320 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    when
    before 1909
  • Use
    where
    Region Nordwesten
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    1900/1901-1909
    where
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    Diehl, Adolf - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Purchase
    when
    1909
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Description
    Linden-Museum bought object from A. Diehl.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED
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