Wooden stool with circular, concave seat. [JC [OPS Move] 10/5/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden stool with circular, concave seat. [JC [OPS Move] 10/5/2017]
Long description: Stool carved from one piece of wood. It has a circular, concave seat and a single, square-sectioned stem which diverges into four splaying, triangular-sectioned legs. The underside of the seat is decorated with fields of parallel grooves, the top of the stem with deeply carved chevrons in a mirrored pattern, and the outer faces of the legs with longitudinal bands of zigzags and triangular fields of parallel grooves. There is a triangular perforation at the top of the stem. The edge of the seat and triangular shapes on the underside of the seat and top of the stem have been stained black. [JC [OPS Move] 10/5/2017]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Akwa Ibom State Ikot Ekpene
Cultural groups: Igbo
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1932
Date collected: 1931 - 1932
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Stained, Process Grooved
Dimensions: Diameter: max 305 mm, Height: max 330 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.6 Other numbers: 120.207