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)
SOLD
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).