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- Title
- Chair
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Chokwe Peoples Angola
- Physical Description
- Two squatting figures decorate the finials; one is elderly, bearded, and scarified, while the other is fresh-faced and young. At the lower left rung, two men carry a slit drum; between the caryatid figures supporting the chair’s front legs appear three men; the central splat has incised diagonal patterns called fuliko. At the center, what is possibly a pointy-nosed European’s face replaces the more habitual chikungu masker.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1925
- Accession Number
- 1992/1.136
- Medium and Support
- wood (dyed with vegetal infusion or stained with castor oil), animal hide
- relevance
- rank 45.98449
- Title
- Chief’s Caryatid Stool (citwamo ka kaponya)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Chokwe Peoples Angola
- Physical Description
- This hour-glass shaped stool is supported by two caryatid figures who sit in a pose of lamentation—crouched with head in hands. Scarified patterned abstracted tears spill from their lower eyelids. Brass studs adorn the perimeter of the stool’s seat, base, and figures. Both figures wear strings of black, red and white beads around their necks.
- Century
- Late 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.204
- Medium and Support
- wood, glass beads, and brass tacks
- relevance
- rank 45.98449