Stool (seating furniture)

Museum number:
5-2191
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050002191
Alternate number:
B-395 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1484
Description:
Wooden stool. Light wood, punched triangles in bands as decoration.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1944-1945
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Stools (seating furniture)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
December 19, 1961
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 20.9 centimeters, length 31.8 centimeters, and height 45.7 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 117A. Exhibited at Oakland Public Museum 1960.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #13: Cole Elementary School/Beverly D. Deffes (September 12, 1963–September 13, 1963) and S1981-1982 #62: Kaiser (April 30, 1982–July 12, 1982)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 5-2191, described as Wooden stool. Light wood, punched triangles in bands as decoration.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 5-2191, described as Wooden stool. Light wood, punched triangles in bands as decoration.

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