Caryatid stool

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Description

wood, shiny, reddish brown patina, powerful expressive forms, min. dam., fissures, slight traces of abrasion, insect caused damage on the underside of the base;
the use of such stools was reserved for special occacions, such as birth, initiation, marriage, or a case of death. They were reserved for a political and spiritual “upper class”, such as chiefs, priests, medicine men, healers and dignitaries. They mainly fullfilled representative and/or ritual functions, but were donated to kings or merited dignitaries as well. They were not destined to be shown in public.

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Comparing literature

Bocola, Sandro (Hg.), Afrikanische Sitze, München, New York 1994, p. 124

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Publications

Afrique Noire, Sculptures des collections privées suisses, La Chaux-de-Fond 1971, ill. 35

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Exhibition

Arts d´Afrique et d´Oceanie, Cannes 1957, No 273; Afrique Noire, Musée des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds 1971, 27.3. - 6.6. 1971

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