Stool (seating furniture)
Tools
- Museum number:
- 5-16766
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016766
- Alternate number:
- 516756
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- carved wooden stool; 4 legs which slant outward; round, concave seat decorated with a large center square from which 4 striped bands and 4 rays ending in diamond radiate (bands from sides; rays from corner). bands and square decorated with narrow carved bands. Conservation: Crack (repaired) through center of stool saw cut on one leg.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Western Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- W. Africa
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Stools (seating furniture)
- Function:
- 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Household
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 41.5 centimeters, width 28 centimeters, and height 20.3 centimeters