Chair

Object Number:

62-3-1

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Badjok

Provenience:

Angola

Locus:

Belgian Congo
Kasai Dist.

Date Made:

1800-1899

Early Date:

1800

Late Date:

1899

Section:

African

Materials:

Wood

Iconography:

Humans
Baboon
Drummers
Scenes

Description:

Wood; blackened. Portuguese type. Face mask on back of chair; on back splat, human figure and baboon; seat carved to imitate tooled leather; human figures for forelegs. Side splats: natives playing a game; three drummers with drum; circumcision ceremony; two natives carrying a canopied litter.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Webster (Margaret Freuer) Plass