Large Wooden Pipe Bowl

Zambia (Bemba people?) or Malawi, c. 1900

Carved wood

Ex–old Belgian collection

11¼” h x 3¾ d (28.58 x 9.53 cm)

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The example at hand relates most closely to the wooden pipe bowls of the Bemba, but similar designs—executed in both wood and clay—were also produced in what is now Malawi.

Cf. Dunhill (1977: 156, fig. 208[1]) and the British Museum (n.d.a, b).

REFERENCES

Dunhill, Alfred. The Pipe Book. London: Arthur Baker Ltd, 1977 [1969].

“Smoking-Pipe | British Museum.” The British Museum, n.d.a. Accessed June 15, 2020.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1949-45-58.

“Smoking-Pipe | British Museum,” The British Museum, n.d.b. accessed June 15, 2020,

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1933-1206-75.