Wooden stool carved from a single piece of wood, with a flat oval-shaped seat and two pairs of V-shaped legs each connected by a cross-bar. Each leg terminates in a small flat and protruding foot. The underside of the seat is possibly stained. [RH [OPS Move] 10/4/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden stool carved from a single piece of wood, with a flat oval-shaped seat and two pairs of V-shaped legs each connected by a cross-bar. Each leg terminates in a small flat and protruding foot. The underside of the seat is possibly stained. [RH [OPS Move] 10/4/2017]
Geographical reference: Uganda
Africa > Eastern Africa > Uganda; Northern Uganda [White Nile]
Cultural groups: Madi
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; Field collector Armine Charles Almroth Wright; PRM source Henry Balfour; PRM source Armine Charles Almroth Wright
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1939?, uncertain
Date collected: ?By 1939
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Stained
Dimensions: Width: max 150 mm, Height: max 115 mm, Length: max 206 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.1.430
Research and responses: Ethnologue uses Ma’di as current group name for Madi. [MR 2/5/2000].
The term ‘White Nile’ has been used to denote an administrative district immediately south of Khartoum throughout the twentieth century. However at the time this object was collected, the term was also used more losely to refer to the Bahr el Abiad and Bahr el Jebel rivers, or the areas immediately around them. The association here with the Ma'di suggests it was collected from somewhere around the Bahr el Jebel in Southern Sudan/Northern Uganda [RTS 28/11/2003].

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