Object Details
- Label Text
- This pipe bowl, has the distintive footed bowl and white filled geometric cross hatching of a Shilluk pipe bowl. It was probably collected in 1947 in Malakal, Sudan. A tall bamboo stem with a gourd mouthpiece was fitted over the stem to filter the tobacco smoke.
- Description
- Ceramic pipe bowl with body shaped like a round bellied pot with a strong shoulder and narrowing neck, off-center pedestal foot, angled conical stem. Bowl, and foot decorated with crosshatching filled with white pigment. Stem has alternating polished and white crosshatched stripes.
- Provenance
- Eliot Elisofon, probably 1947 to 1973
- Elin Elisofon, 1973 to 2014
- Content Statement
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- Image Requests
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Shilluk artist
- Date
- Mid-20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Elin Elisofon
- Medium
- Ceramic, pigment
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 19.1 × 14 × 7.6 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
