Stool (seating furniture)

Museum number:

5-11693

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Alternate number:

B-397 (previous number (Bascom’s number))

Accession number:

Acc.2819 and Acc.2916

Description:

Stool; carved wood.

Donor:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Collection place:

Ghana

Verbatim coll. place:

Africa, Ghana; Ashanti.

Culture or time period:

Ashanti

Collector:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Collection date:

1944

Materials:

Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Stools (seating furniture)

Function:

4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings

Accession date:

1971 and December 15, 1972

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

length 21.5 centimeters, width 21 centimeters, and height 38.5 centimeters

Comment:

PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 117A. Exhibited: Evanston Towship High School, Evanston, Ill. 1953; Oakland Public Museum 1965.

Loans:

S1965-1966 #15: Oakland Public Museum (September 16, 1965–November 10, 1965), S1971-1972 #18: California State University, Sacramento (September 23, 1971–October 28, 1971), and S1981-1982 #62: Kaiser (April 30, 1982–July 12, 1982)

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