Pipe with anthropomorphic head
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91 Tribal Art AuctionPipe with anthropomorphic head
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany, collected in situ, 1959 | L: 18.9 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
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.
Cremer, Wolfgang, Pfeifen, Hanf und Tabak in Schwarzafrika, Idstein 2004, p. 205, ill. 148