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Stool "umele" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3052080

Starting price EUR 250
Estimated price EUR 500
Provenance
Kuhlmann & Struck, Hamburg, Germany
Werner & Lotte Krause, Hamburg, Germany (1996)
Size
H: 19,5 cm, L: 40,5 cm
H: 7.7 inch, L: 15.9 inch

Description

wood, encrusted patina, collection no. “742”

One-piece stools carved out of a rectangular piece of wood could be carried by the handle that had been carved into them. They were not intended for general, everyday use, but were reserved for the elders or heads of families and important chiefs.


Comparing literature

Bocola, Sandro (Hg.), Afrikanische Sitze, München, New York 1994, p. 173, ill. 33


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