Chair

Object Number:	2003-48-5
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Provenience:	Dahomey Benin
Section:	African
Materials:	Wood
Credit Line:	Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number:	1993.X.631 - Other Number

Description

Prestige chair (Western influence). King Tofa's chair.

Bibliography:

[Article] Latimer, Dwaune D. 2015. "The People & Products of Colonization: Africa at the Chicago and Paris Expositions". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 57. no. 1. pg. 22-26 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 25