Clay Water Buffalo? Pipe

Any ideas on this piece? Don't even remember where I picked it up at. Looks touristy to me. Stands 3" tall and is 4" long with a 2 1/8" diameter bowl. It has a black glaze and some type of red rust colored pigmentation applied also as seen in the small crevices. The clay itself is a gray color as evidenced by the chipped ear in the last photo.Thanks.

 

It probably is touristy and may be from Crete. Try searching "bull rhyton"

 

It may be a tobacco pipe made by the Bamun or Bamileke people of Cameroon, Africa; made either for use or, nowadays, for sale. They apply a red pigment made from ground camwood.

http://www.pijpenkabinet.nl/Pijpenkabinet/O-E Kameroen.html

 

I'm with 2many. And maybe an antelope, with those curly horns?

 

Perhaps a gnu.

 

Thanks everyone. Similar but not exact , I did find this...




and this...

 

Well, Zambia is not Cameroon........ At least we got you to the right continent.

Those are much more similar than the examples I was finding from Cameroon. What information was included with the second image you found, Dig?

 

OK, here we go:
"Lozi (Barotse) Tribe, W. Zambia Composition: fired clay, wood, glass beads, wire 12 3/4" (h) x 2.5" Pipe bowl (w) / 32.38 cm (h) x 6.35 cm (w) Age: early 20th century"

 

Wow, beautiful!

 

But is it an old gnu?

 

Not too much but it did include this...

A Sotho clay pipe bowl, South Africa, modelled as an antelope with diced panelled bowl, with traces of red pigment, 10cm long.

https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/departments/tribal-art/tr090216/view-lot/271/