Stool "dwa" · Ghana, Akan, Ashanti (Asante) · ID: 3052304

Name: Stool "dwa"
SKU: 3052304
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Barbara Herold, Schweinfurt, Germany

Size

H: 22,5 cm (seat hight)

B: 48 cm

H: 8.9 inch (seat hight)

B: 18.9 inch

Description

wood,

Ashanti stools have always had a spiritual significance in addition to their purely practical use. The stool was regarded as the seat of its owner’s soul. When not in use, it was therefore leant against a wall at an angle so that none of the passing souls could sit on it.

If someone died after leading an exemplary life, their stool was blackened and kept in the clan’s chair room. From then on, it was regarded as the seat of the ancestors and was sacrificed as such.

The object Stool “dwa” with the object ID 3052304 was last part of the auction Collectors’ Items Sale at September 24, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 173.

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