Epaepa

Tobacco pipe
Marquesas Islands, Polynesia.
19th century.
Wood with a fine dark patina and traces of wear and use (minor old lacunae to one tiki).
Length: 25,7 cm
Provenance:
Originally found on a Flea Market in Brittany. Olivier Pean, France
Exhitibion:
On show at the exhibition "Cross Collecting Now !" From 12 to 18 June, 2023 At Angela Berney Fine Arts - Andlauerhof 17 Muensterplatz - 4051 Basel - Switzerland.

Carved on wood and representing an assemblage of various tiki representation on the bowl and stem. These figures include three large faces on the pipe bowl, and three half figures on the stem with two lateral half figures and one larger one carved on the top of the stem, as well as janus heads towards the mouth-piece. There is a wide, waisted roundel carved in the middle of the stem.

Object Presented by:
Anthony J.P. Meyer
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