brass, wood, sacking, strands of polychrome glass beads, metal, additionally: two pipe bowls, terracotta with blackish coating, h: 17 cm (each), one of them rep.
Tobacco pipes are considered prestige objects in the Cameroon Grassfields, indicating the rank and title of their individual owner. Such elaborate figurative pipe bowls as the present ones, and above all those made of brass, were reserved for the Fon and the dignitaries alone.
H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), H: 8,3 inch / 24,6 inch
Provenance:
Jürgen Peters, Nürnberg, Germany
Lit.: Kahan, Leonard et .al., A Cameroon World, New York 2007, p. 109

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