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Stool

From Kisangani area, Congo (Kinshasa), 1900

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Unknown

Stool

From Kisangani area, Congo (Kinshasa), 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, 8 15/16 × 10 13/16 in. (22.7 × 27.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of John Cady, Baltimore
Object Number 1993.186
Decorative round stool with decorative support of two intersecting geometric forms -- one flat and pierced, the other more bulky with two projecting forms in the mid section. Seat is a concave disc, with a herringbone pattern incised around the edge. A small 'cat's wisker' is incised at opposite sides of the upper surface of the stool.

Culture

Unknown

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