Stool "umele" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé · ID: 3034844

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.

Littérature comparée

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