Your search result Your search result
Sorting
Refine your search
Reference
Category
Origin
Material
Quality
Tuareg "ǝlbayt" tobacco pouch21.03.1634
- Leather & skins
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Fair condition (some missing, broken or repaired parts, see pictures)
The Tuareg "ǝlbayt" snuffbox is made in a purely Mauritanian style.The snuffbox has three pockets with flaps. These "wargāt" leaves bear the names of the various objects that are stored in the snuffbox: the tobacco leaf, the tinder, the lighter and the pipe cleaner.
Tuareg "ǝlbayt" tobacco pouch21.03.1633
- Leather & skins
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
The Tuareg "ǝlbayt" snuffbox is made by leatherworkers in a purely Mauritanian style.The snuffbox has two pockets with flaps. These "wargāt" leaves bear the names of the various objects that are stored in the snuffbox, it closes with a small leather cord.
Clay pipe head Cameroon21.01.1624
- Clay; Pottery
- Excellent overall condition
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Original condition
The pipe head is in perfect condition; its origin is not clearly defined, but most probably Cameroon. The furnace has a lovely patina and three engravings.
Tuareg "ǝlbayt" tobacco pouch21.03.1631
- Leather & skins
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
The Tuareg "ǝlbayt" snuffbox is made by leatherworkers in a purely Mauritanian style.The snuffbox has four pockets with flaps. These "wargāt" leaves bear the names of the various objects that are stored in the snuffbox, it closes with a small leather cord.
Three calabash spoons09.01.1676
- Gourds, calabashes
- Functional household item
- New never used
Diameter of the largest one: 10,5 cm Weight: 120 gr
There are 4 spoons on the picture, but one is broken.
One calabash bowl and three spoons09.01.1675
- Gourds, calabashes
- Functional household item
- New never used
lents of spoons; 21 - 17- 12,5 cm Weight: 168 gr
Calebash pot09.01.1674
- Gourds, calabashes
- Various fibres
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Functional household item
- New never used
Pretty squash container surmounted by a basketry collar. Either it never had a cover or it is missing.
Six cups made out of pumpkinsqqxs09.01.1673
- Gourds, calabashes
- Functional household item
- New never used
Three spoons of calabash09.01.1672
- Gourds, calabashes
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- New never used
- Functional household item
Three spoons made from pumpkins, nowadays endangered with the invasion of Chinese enamel and plastics
Gourde for banana beer - Rwanda09.01.1670
- Gourds, calabashes
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
- Excellent overall condition
- High aesthetic value
Bottles for banana beer are made out of the medium-sized pumpkins of the ibamba variety. The present gourde is remarkably conserved and lovingly repaired one repair consists of fine strands of interlocking rattan sawn through the gourd a second type is made with metal clamps. The gourde has deep brown/reddish patina. Collected during my stay in Rwanda from 1974 to 1977.
Calabash bowl and spoon09.01.1684
- Gourds, calabashes
- New never used
- Excellent overall condition
Anew calabash, never used in perfect condition
Small calabash
- Gourds, calabashes
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- High aesthetic value
This small calabsh has nice pyro-engraved gemetrical decorations
Beautiful Fulani calabash09.01.1655
- Gourds, calabashes
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
- High aesthetic value
- Excellent overall condition
This is a beautifully decorated calabash with a smooth patina, from the nomadic Fulani tribes of northern Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad. The present calabash, even so, they are highly fragile, has not a single crack and is in perfect condition, which is rare to find.
Similar item at : Musée de l'Homme, M.H. 1931.75.2482, and MEG (geneva) No ETHAF 046001-3
Storage pot. Calabash & bark - Burkina Faso09.01.1665
- Gourds, calabashes
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- Functional household item
This small container was used in the house to store things
Three calabashes spoons09.01.1663
- Gourds, calabashes
- Excellent overall condition
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Functional household item
Large spoon calabash09.01.1662
- Gourds, calabashes
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- Functional household item
Set of three calabashes09.01.1661
- Gourds, calabashes
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Functional household item
- Excellent overall condition
To bowls and one spoon all in perfect condition
Calabash bowl09.01.1691
- Gourds, calabashes
- New never used
A new calabash with a fine, not open crack hardly visible
Calabash bowl09.01.1693
- Gourds, calabashes
- Worth to be repaired/restored
- New never used
New calabash with a small crack
Clay pipe from the Cameroon Grassland21.01.1585
- Clay; Pottery
- Iron
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Nice old clay pipe, with signs of long use (tobacco remains) probably from Bamessing region. Similar pipe : ETHAF 039083, MEG
African brass pipe with snake motif21.01.1599
- Brass / bronze
- Wood
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
- High aesthetic value
- Excellent overall condition
A small, but rare and beautiful brass pipe from Africa, Exact origin unknown, probably Cameroon.
Beautiful old African brass pipe21.01.1597
- Brass / bronze
- Wood
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
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.
Old African brass pipe21.01.1595
- Brass / bronze
- Iron
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
- High aesthetic value
- Excellent overall condition
This is a old brass pipe, with a well-sculpted furnace and an iron stem. 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.
Clay pipe from the Cameroon Grassland21.01.1594
- Clay; Pottery
- Wood
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
- High aesthetic value
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Beautiful clay pipe head and wooden stem. Signs of long use. A similar object can be found in MEG (Musér d'Ethnographie de Genüve) Inv. No ETHAF 039083
Old large African brass pipe in excellent condition21.01.1586
- Brass / bronze
- Wood
A very large brass pipe, old and in its originalcondition. Well sculptedand in excelent condition. While Musée d'Ethnographie de Neucâtel (MEN) attributes a similar artle 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.
Old African brass pipe head21.01.1590
- Brass / bronze
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Original condition
This is old brass pipe head, due to its age and long use it has a hole in the furnace. The wooden stem on the picture is lost. 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 existing pipe has been collected in Northern Cameroon
Snuff bottle from Northern Cameroon21.03.1604
- Brass / bronze
- Wood
- Leather & skins
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Asnuff bottle made of cast brass from northern Cameroon/Nigeria (Vere?). It begins with a reinforced rim, a long narrow neck, a bulbous body decorated with a concentric pattern, partially erased. An integrated buckle anchors the strap from the stop.
Decorated pipe and tobacco bag, Tuareg21.03.1614
- Leather & skins
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
This is a lovely worked and painted leather bag, worn by the Tuareg and Fulani of Muritania. These bags contain normally tobacco, a pipe and tweezers and needles to remove thorns, they are also used as wallets. Within the Tuareg they are usually the women who tanned and decorated the skin.
Ancient tobacco bag, Tuareg21.03.1609
- Leather & skins
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Fair condition (some missing, broken or repaired parts, see pictures)
This is a lovely old worked and painted leather bag, worn by the Tuareg and Fulani of Muritania. These bags contain normally tobacco, a pipe and tweezers and needles to remove thorns, they are also used as wallets. Within the Tuareg they are usually the women who tanned and decorated the skin. some dark spots on the inner side, see pictures.
Small brass pipe in excellent condition21.01.1605
- Brass / bronze
- Wood
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- High aesthetic value
This small old brass has nicely decorated pipe head, a wooden centrepiece and a brass mouthpiece. 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 existing pipe has been collected in Northern Cameroon.