Chair
Object Number: | 62-3-1 |
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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 |
Height: | 82.1 cm |
Length: | 30.1 cm |
Width: | 31.5 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Webster (Margaret Freuer) Plass, 1962 |
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.
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