Ki (Smoking Pipe) Bowl
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unknown Bamessing
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Ki (Smoking Pipe) Bowl
Early 20th century
Sculpted and incised terracotta with fabric remains
3.346 x 2.165 x 2 1/16 in. (8.5 x 5.5 x 5.2 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
99.3.6
Other Number(s):
151 (Neufeld Collection Number)
Acquisition Date:
12/20/1996
Geography:
Africa, Cameroon, Northwest Region, Ndop Plain
Classification:
Clothing and Adornments; Personal Gear; Smoking & Recreational Drug Equipment
Culture/Nationality:
Nsei, Bamessing, Cameroonian, Central African, African
Collection:
Neufeld Collection
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
African*,
anthropomorphic*,
Cameroonian*,
Central African*,
clay*,
Nsei*,
pipe bowls*,
pipes*,
terracotta*
- African - Refers to the cultures of the continent of Africa, which is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.
- anthropomorphic - Resembling a human form.
- Cameroonian - Style and culture of the nation of Cameroon, lying at the junction of western and central Africa.
- Central African - Styles and cultures from a wide region of Africa that straddles the Equator and is drained largely by the Congo River system.
- clay - Naturally occurring sediments that are produced by chemical actions resulting during the weathering of rocks. Clays are composed of hydrated aluminum silicates, such as Kaolinite, Illite, Palygorskite, Attapulgite, Bentonite, and Montmorillonite. Small amounts of other minerals can change the color (white, yellow, brown or red) and texture of the clays. Clays may include all earths that form a paste with water and harden when heated.
- Nsei - Describes works created by the African people of the same name living in the Ndop Plain, Bamenda region of the western Cameroon Grassfields.
- pipe bowls - The rounded ends of tobacco smoking pipes. These are often found as separate components during archeological excavations.
- pipes - Devices consisting of a tube with a bowl at one end and a mouthpiece at the other; used for smoking tobacco, opium, and other substances.
- terracotta - A baked or semi-fired material that is usually a mixture of clay, grog, and water; it has been used for pottery, statuettes, lamps, roof tiles, and cornices since ancient times. It may be glazed prior to firing. To produce an item, terracotta is molded or shaped, dried for several days then fired to at least 600 C. It is fireproof, lighter in weight than stone, and usually brownish red in color.
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Owner Name: Mace Neufeld and Helen Katz Neufeld, Class of 1953
Role: Donor
Place: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, US
Ownership End Date: 12/20/1996
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Owner Name: Sotheby's Parke-Bernet Auction House (Seller for Cranbrook Art Museum)
Role: Seller
Place: New York, New York, USA
Disposal Method: Auction
Ownership End Date: May 4, 1972
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Owner Name: Museum of the Cranbrook Academy of Art
Role: Museum
Place: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
Acquisition Method: Donation from George and Ellen Booth
Disposal Method: Sold at Auction in 1972
Ownership Start Date: 1940
Ownership End Date: May 4, 1972
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Owner Name: George Gough (1864 – 1949) and Ellen Scripps (1863–1948) Booth
Place: Purchased at Weyhe Gallery and Donated to the Cranbrook Art Museum
Acquisition Method: Purchase
Disposal Method: Donation
Ownership Start Date: 1940
Ownership End Date: 1940
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Owner Name: Weyhe Gallery (1919-2003), New York/Erhard Weyhe (1882-1972)
Role: Seller
Place: New York, New York, USA
Ownership End Date: 1940
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Owner Name: Dr. Hans Himmelheber (1908-2003), Heidelberg, Germany
Role: Anthropologist/Collector
Place: New York, New York, USA
Acquisition Method: Likely Field Collected in 1938
Ownership Start Date: Likely 1938
Ownership End Date: 1940 or Earlier
Remarks: Himmelheber was in Cameroon in 1938, but according to the Himmelheber archives in Zurich most of the material from the time before the Second World War was destroyed during the war.
Bibliography List
The following Bibliography exist for this object:
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Ladislas Segy,
African Sculpture Speaks
Hill and Wang.
New York, New York, 1969
Page Number: 205, Figure Number: 257 - "African Heritage Document and Research Center." (Accessed June 11, 2020): AHDRC.eu. Record No.: 0181769.
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Catalogue of Cranbrook Collections: Egyptian, Western Asiatic & Classical Antiquities, Indian & Islamic Art, Precolumbian & African Art
Sotheby's Parke-Bernet.
New York, New York, May 4, 1972
Page Number: 92, Figure Number: Lot #246 -
Weyhe Gallery,
African Negro Art
Weyhe Gallery.
New York, New York, 1940
Figure Number: 33
Comparanda List
The following Comparanda exist for this object:
- Paul Gebauer, "Cameroon Tobacco Pipes." African Arts 5, no. 2 (Winter 1972): 29.
Related Bibliography List
The following Related Bibliography exist for this object:
- Paul Gebauer, "Cameroon Tobacco Pipes." African Arts 5, no. 2 (Winter 1972): 28-35.
- Paul Gebauer, Art of Cameroon (Portland, Oregon and New York, New York: Portland Art Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), 249-253, 343-353.
- Tamara Northern, The Sign of the Leopard : Beaded Art of Cameroon : a Loan Exhibition from the Cameroon Collections of the Linden-Museum Stuttgard (Connecticut: Storrs : William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1975), 102-114, 124-125.
- "ÌMỌ̀ DÁRA." (Accessed May 10, 2020): Imodara.com. https://www.imodara.com/discover/cameroon-bamum-ki-smoking-pipe/.
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