Accession No
1937.105 B
Description
Red clay pipe bowl shaped like a male head with flared and flat base. Eyebrows, moustache and hair painted in black, eyes painted with white and black; one diagonal grooves over each cheek and vertical groove on forehead, all painted black; entire face incised with lines, likely indicating scarification; four indented or stamped lines from ear to neck on both sides.
Place
Africa; West Africa; Ghana; Upper East Region; Nabdam District; Nangodi
Period
Source
Wild, Robert Powley (Captain) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1937.105 B
Cultural Affliation
Talensi
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
105mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1937.105 A-B: 'Two terracotta pipe-bowls, the bowl parts in the form of male heads, with socket for the mouthpieces projecting from the back of the neck. Red terracotta, with hair, eyebrows, eyes and a ?tribal markings on cheeks, in black; whites of eyes in white. [different hand] apparently unused.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card for 1937.105 A-B reads: 'Donor's note: "Made by a Talensi man at Yorogu near Zuarungu, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. Bought in Nangodi, N.T.s, on 22.4.37.
Event Date 22/04/1937
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Red clay pipe bowl shaped like a male head with flared and flat base. Eyebrows, moustache and hair painted in black, eyes painted with white and black; one diagonal grooves over each cheek and vertical groove on forehead, all painted black; entire face incised with lines, likely indicating scarification; four indented or stamped lines from ear to neck on both sides.
Event Date 15/10/2001
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:289400
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