Pipe with anthropomorphic head · D. R. Congo, Kuba · ID: 3045282
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Provenance
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany, collected in situ, 1959Size
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.
Comparing literature
Cremer, Wolfgang, Pfeifen, Hanf und Tabak in Schwarzafrika, Idstein 2004, p. 205, ill. 148