Stuhl ·  D. R. Congo, Mangbetu · ID: 3036005

Description

wood, grass fibre, brown patina, wooden framework, all parts artificially mortised or dowelled with wooden plugs, decorative batten with bows on top and at the base, rounded forms, seat of fine plaited grass fibre matting, slightly dam. abrasion, traces of usage;
folding canvas chairs, of European origin, probably reached the interior of Africa about the same time as the first traders and explorers who came from Europe in the nineteenth century. Various models were copied and adapted to the indigenous style by local carpenters.

The object Stuhl with the object ID 3036005 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 422.

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Comparing literature

Bocola, Sandro (Hg.), Afrikanische Sitze, München, New York 1994, p. 35, ill. 7