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Catalogue number: 5414
D.R. Congo-Angola, Chokwe, a fine tobacco pipe, late 19th - early 20th century,
showing a Tipoye style, hammock traveler. A pair of seated porters holding a Colonial style hammock carrying a person, decorated with fine geometrical carved patterns. An old label in the pipehead, reading 585 and a number in white lacquer T60 on the iron rod. The pipe bowl interior covered in iron.
L. 51 cm.
Provenance: Acquired 1930s by Hans Himmelheber in situ. Boris Kegel-Konietzko (1925-2020), Hamburg, Germany, #T60, acquired from the above Published: Nanina Guyer, Michaela Oberhofer “Fiction Congo”, 2019, Museum Rietberg, fig. 88. Exhibited: Congo as Fiction - Art Worlds Between Past and Present", Museum Rietberg, 22 October 2019 - 9 February 2020 Ahdrc nr. 143965
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