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Bowl of a Tobacco Smoking Pipe

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Pipe bowl
Dimensions
Length: 5.8 cm
Width: 1.6 cm
Material/Technique
Steatite, Plant fibre hewn, ground, Cord, scribed, plugged
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
110317 b

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Maag; 0985
  • Production
    when
    around 1923
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
The collection came into the museum on loan in 1923, and shortly before his death in 1932, Maag donated the collection to the museum. According to the information in the new acquisitions book, Maag "collected [all objects] himself in situ". Text: Christoph Rippe.

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