Smoking Pipe

91-13-11

From: Cameroon

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 91-13-11
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Cameroon
Date Made ca. 1900
Section African
Materials Wood | Ceramic
Description

Pipe with hollow wood stem and ceramic bowl. Stem covered with string of blue and white glass spiralling beads. Colors alternate in bands of 3-7 rows of beads. Black ceramic bowl, burnished modelled and incised. With horn-like prong at front end. Strip of hide with bits of hair secures bowl to stem.

Length 22 cm
Width 6.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mary Lou Jacoby, 1991

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