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Tobacco pipe bowl

This clay pipe bowl depicts a ruler or a dignitary. It was made in Bamessing in the Cameroon grasslands at the beginning of the 20th century. 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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Tobacco pipe bowl
Dimensions
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 18,6 x 8,7 x 8,5 cm
Gewicht: < 2 kg
Material/Technique
Ceramics
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 24744

Provenance and sources

where
Cameroon [Land/Region]
Bamesing [Ort]
Bali (Bani) [Ort]

who
Ankermann, Bernhard - Collectors

Description
Purchase from Dr Ankermann 1909

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