Three pipes · Cameroon Grassfields · ID: 3052067
Starting price
EUR 250
Estimated price
EUR 500
Provenance
Auktionshaus Hüll, Cologne, Germany (1993)Elmar Wellenhöfer, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Size
H: 14,5 cm - 22 cm
H: 5.7 inch - 8.7 inch
Description
fired clay, dyed brown, redwood flour,
The smoking of locally grown tobacco was common in the Grassfields during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only men, but also women were addicted to smoking.
Comparing literature
Cremer, Wolfgang, Pfeifen, Hanf und Tabak in Schwarzafrika, Idstein 2004, p. 285