Stool

Description

Circular wooden stool with wire repair on seat, curved back and open lattice-work base, carved geometric patterns on seat back and serpent carved on back of stool from top to base: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanganyika Plateau, Bemba people, late 19th century

Museum reference

A.1906.265

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Stool

Production information

Unknown
Tanganyika Plateau, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa

Style / Culture

Bemba

Materials

Wood, Wire

Physical description

Wood

Exhibitions

• Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art (17 Mar 1986)
  National Museum of African Art
  University of Michigan Museum of Art
  Royal Museum for Central Africa

References

1985. Roberts, Allen F. and E. M. Maurer (eds.), Tabwa. The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, p.262

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 1 »
world cultures, patterns of life