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Tobacco pipe bowl
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This clay pipe bowl depicts a crocodile. It was made at the beginning of the 20th century in the Kingdom of Bamum 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 (JF 03.01.2017).

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Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Tobacco pipe bowl
Dimensions
Gewicht: < 2 kg
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 12,3 x 6,2 x 6,5 cm
Material/Technique
Ceramics
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25572
Related object(s)
is related to : Variante: III C 45596, Tabakpfeifenkopf, um 1905, Anton Handl (um 1905)
Variante: III C 45596, Tabakpfeifenkopf, um 1905, Anton Handl (um 1905)

Provenance and sources

where
Grassland
Cameroon [Land/Region]
who
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)

who
Ankermann, Bernhard - Collectors

Description
Purchase from Dr Ankermann 1909

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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