African Tribal Art

Three Voltaic Metal Pipe Bowls

Culture: Voltaic peoples
Origin: Burkina Faso
Object: Pipe
Materials: White metal
Dimensions: 6–10 cm long
Catalogue: TRB-145

Three pipe bowls of white metal from Burkina Faso. The rightmost example is published as catalogue number 471, page 448, in Christopher D. Roy and Thomas G. B. Wheelock, Land of the Flying Masks: Art and Culture in Burkina Faso. The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection (Munich: Prestel, 2007).

Provenance

Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, New York.

Acquired

Material Culture · 2024