Stool (seating furniture)
- Museum number:
- 5-11704
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050011704
- 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.
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