Working photo, general view | Photographer: Hendryk Ortlieb | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalWorking photo, detail sign | Photographer: | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalWorking photo, pipe bowl | Photographer: Hendryk Ortlieb | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalAround 1900, kings, dignitaries and heads of families in the grasslands of Cameroon smoked tobacco. The more splendid the pipe appeared, the higher the rank of the smoker. This pipe from the kingdom of Bamum is particularly splendid. Its pipe is embroidered with colourful glass beads from Europe in a complex pattern. The clay bowl was probably made in the neighbouring kingdom of Bali. In 1908, King Njoya of Bamum (reigned approx. 1887 - 1933) presented it to the then German governor of Cameroon, Theodor Seitz (*1863 - †1949), as a birthday present for Emperor Wilhem II.
Cataloguing data
Width: 14 cm
Depth: 11,5 cm
Length: 132 cm
Height: 115,5 cm
Width: 3 cm
Depth: 3 cm
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Collecting
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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