Chair - 62-3-1 | Collections

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
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.

Bibliography:

[Article] Crownover, David J. 1962. "Take the Chair". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 4. no. 4. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pages 20-23	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 13	View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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