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Pipe with anthropomorphic head ·  D. R. Congo, Kuba · ID: 3045282

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Provenance
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany, collected in situ, 1959
Size
L: 48 cm
L: 18.9 inch

Description

wood / fourpart, hide, metal, wire, nails, collection number “K277”

Similar to the drinking cups, the hairstyle and the headdress of the 19th century return in these pipe bowls.


The object Pipe with anthropomorphic head with the object ID 3045282 was last part of the auction 91 Tribal Art Auction at March 9, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 310.

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Comparing literature

Cremer, Wolfgang, Pfeifen, Hanf und Tabak in Schwarzafrika, Idstein 2004, p. 205, ill. 148


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