Wooden stool, circular concave seat supported by single square stem diverging into four curved square feet decorated with geometric designs. [ZM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/11/2004]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden stool, circular concave seat supported by single square stem diverging into four curved square feet decorated with geometric designs. [ZM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/11/2004]
Long description: Wooden stool, circular concave seat supported by single square stem diverging into four curved square feet decorated with geometric designs on the underside and the legs of the stool. [SM (Verve) 14/05/2014]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Anambra Awka
Cultural groups: Igbo
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Diameter: max 364 mm, Height: max 350 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.544 Other numbers: 544
Associated publications: Listed with as number 101 on page 13 of Art from the Guinea Coast (Pitt Rivers Museum, Illustrated Catalogue No. 1), Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum (1965): 'NIGERIA Eastern Region ... 101. Title-holder's stool from Awka. Ibo (1942.13.544.) (36 cm.)'. (For details of exhibition, see under 'Display History'.) [JC 12 9 2013]