Stool (seating furniture)

Museum number:
5-15309
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015309
Accession number:
Acc.4428
Description:
Stool. Reddish brown carved hardwood. Concave seat engraved with geometric designs including triangles around rim, encircling band of hemispheres. 4 bowed legs, circlet bottom, open inside structure. Seat diameter 24 centimeters, height 20 centimeters. From West Africa, probably Nigeria.
Donor:
Joan Wescott
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa attr.; probably Nigeria
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Stools (seating furniture)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
July 25, 1989
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 5-15309, described as Stool. Reddish brown carved hardwood. Concave seat engraved with geometric designs including triangles around rim, encircling band of hemispheres. 4 bowed legs, circlet bottom, open inside structure. Seat diameter 24 centimeters, height 20 centimeters. From West Africa, probably Nigeria.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 5-15309, described as Stool. Reddish brown carved hardwood. Concave seat engraved with geometric designs including triangles around rim, encircling band of hemispheres. 4 bowed legs, circlet bottom, open inside structure. Seat diameter 24 centimeters, height 20 centimeters. From West Africa, probably Nigeria.

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