Object name: Stool (seating furniture) / Culture or time period: Yoruba cluster

Start Over Object name Stool (seating furniture) Culture or time period Yoruba cluster

Museum number:: 5-14939
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Stools (seating furniture)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 53.5 centimeters and height 44.5 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom
Collection place:: Meko, Nigeria
Collection date:: before 1961

Museum number:: 5-10280a-d
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Stools (seating furniture)
Function:: 3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Dimensions:: a— diameter 50 centimeters, c— diameter 48 centimeters, b— length 29.5 centimeters, and d— diameter 50 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Ife, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1937

Museum number:: 5-14085
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Stools (seating furniture)
Maker or artist:: Duga of Meko
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: diameter 29 centimeters and height 34 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1950

Museum number:: 5-16327
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Stools (seating furniture)
Function:: 1.5 Household
Dimensions:: height 47.7 centimeters, base— diameter 42.5 centimeters, and seat— diameter 41 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria

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