Pipe / Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.344
- Title
- Pipe
- Artist Nationality
- Cameroonian
- Medium and Support
- cast bronze with wool cloth
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1987
- Object Creation Place
- Africa (continent)
- Cameroon (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Cameroon (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Douglas and Mary Kelley
- Dimensions
- 37.2 cm x 14.3 cm x 5 cm (14 5/8 in. x 5 5/8 in. x 1 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Physical Description
- Brass pipe with a figurative bowl in the shape of a human head.
- Subject Matter
- The pipe's bowl is a human face, styled with European physical characteristics. The face smokes a smaller pipe, meant to be a humurous allusion to an infinite series commenting on the plasticity of social relationships and universals of human experience. The pipe smokes a pipe, which may be thought of as smoking an even smaller pipe and so on. Similarly, the pipesmoker may be unknowingly being smoked, and so on.
- Secondary Keywords
- smoking and tobacco use
- biological components
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- equipment
- equipment by context
- equipment for personal use
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- the human body
- tools and equipment
- upper body
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 391 x 1197
- File Size
- 24 KB
- Record
- 1987/1.344
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1987-sl-1.344/1987_1.344.jpg
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"Pipe; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1987-sl-1.344/1987_1.344.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
