Figurative Tobacco Pipe
Unidentified Bobo maker
19th-20th century
Wood, brass, lead and snake skin
Overall: 27 1/2 in. (69.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
MIS.972.99
Geography
Place Made: Burkina Faso, Western Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Pipe
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
African Art from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 30, 1975.
Provenance
Ex-collection of Jean-Michel Huguenin, Paris; Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1972.
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