Stool (seating furniture)

Museum number:
5-11704
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1193 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
Description:
Stool; carved wood; anthropomorphic, three legs (one of which is a phallus);
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Burkina Faso
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Gold Coast, Lobi; Purchased through Max Alfert from Ascher, Paris
Culture or time period:
Lobi
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1966
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:
height 18 centimeters, width 11 centimeters, and length 53 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, 1967.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 5-11704, described as Stool; carved wood; anthropomorphic, three legs (one of which is a phallus);Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 5-11704, described as Stool; carved wood; anthropomorphic, three legs (one of which is a phallus);
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 5-11704, described as Stool; carved wood; anthropomorphic, three legs (one of which is a phallus);

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