Stool "umele"

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Description

heavy wood, matt patina, incised triangular ornaments on both sides, massive handle for support, dam., cracks, missing parts, slight traces of usage;
such stools were reserved for elders or family heads of certain lineages, and for important chiefs. After the owners death they used to get blackened.

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Comparing literature

Bocola, Sandro (Hg.), Afrikanische Sitze, München, New York 1994, p. 173, ill. 34

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