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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3932
Title
Pipe bowl, ceramic, Meje Medje people of Africa
Description
This pipe bowl in the form of a human head was used with the hollowed-out midrib of a banana leaf to smoke hashish, a practice strictly forbidden by the Belgian government. For this reason, Lang wrote, "It is very difficult to get the pipes or to observe them smoking anything else but tobacco, of which they are also fond" (152).
Materials: Ceramic, coating.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1914 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Pipes (Smoking)
Physical dimensions
W:6.3 H:6.5 D:5.5 (in CM)
City Town
Medje
State Province
Upper Uele
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Is Part Of
African reflections : art from northeastern Zaire
,
Division of Anthropology, African Ethnographic Collection
Collection/Work Relation
AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Transparency Collection, 4 x 5: 3932
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/1816
Rights statement
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Repository
American Museum of Natural History
Publication History
Schildkrout, Enid, Curtis A Keim, Curtis A Keim, American Museum of Natural History, and American Museum of Natural History. 1990. African Reflections : Art from Northeastern Zaire. Seattle: University of Washington Press, p. 118.
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