Beautiful old African brass pipe 21.01.1597
This is a very old brass pipe, with a well-sculpted furnace and stem. it has a small mouthpiece in wood. Due to its long use the pie head has a small hole. While Musée d'Ethnographie de Neucâtel (MEN) attributes a similar article to the Ashanti tribe in Ghana and some other sources link them to the Mossi in Burkina Faso, The present pipe has been collected in Northern Cameroon.
