Stool

37-22-290

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-290
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bolom
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni
Section African
Materials Wood
Description

Ntthong=stool, ma=of, botth=board. With round top to which are nailed three short lengths of board radiating from the centre, as legs. More common nowadays, are the stools with matting seat on a crate-like structure of lengths of raphia palm leaf midrib.

Height 22 cm
Outside Diameter 37 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 50 - Collector Number

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