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Tobacco pipe
The bowl of this simple tobacco pipe is made of clay. The pipe is made from a bird's bone. The pipe was made at the beginning of the 20th century near Lake Nyos in the Cameroon grasslands. Around 1900, kings, dignitaries and heads of families in the Cameroon grasslands smoked tobacco. The higher the rank of the smoker, the more splendid the pipe was supposed to be. Around 1908, the ethnologist Bernhard Ankermann (*1869 - †1943) commissioned dozens of tobacco pipes from local artists during a research trip to Cameroon. He bought other pipes in local markets. They were unused when the then Royal Museum of Ethnology acquired them.
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Cultural attribution
Nyos
Object type
Tobacco pipe
Dimensions
Height: 18,5 cm
Width: 5 cm
Depth: 3 cm
Weight: 0,1 kg
Width: 5 cm
Depth: 3 cm
Weight: 0,1 kg
Material/Technique
Ceramics, Bones
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25008
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where
Cameroon
Grassland
who
Nyos
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Africa
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