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Tobacco pipe bowl (Fetsome)

This clay pipe bowl depicts a seated human figure. It was made at the beginning of the 20th century in Bekom 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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Babekom
Object type
Tobacco pipe bowl (Fetsome)
Dimensions
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 15 x 6,3 x 8,6 cm
Gewicht: < 2 kg
Material/Technique
Ceramics
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 24906

Provenance and sources

when
1908
where
Cameroon [Land]
who
Babekom

who
Ankermann, Bernhard - Collectors

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