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Tobacco pipe bowl

Clay, human face below, frogs above Main catalogue: "TAMTON Pipe bowl. Below a human face, above the frog pattern (2 rows of frogs), above a two-row meander. Recesses filled with redwood powder."

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Tobacco pipe bowl
Dimensions
Height: 11,6 cm
Width: 5 cm
Depth: 6,1 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Material/Technique
Ceramics
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25568

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Cameroon
    who
    Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Dr Ankermann 1909
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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