stool
- Museum number
- Af1896,0511.7
- Description
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Ancestral stool, made of wood; blackened.
Rectangular base, curved rectangular top carved with two rows of holes; pedestal carved with four rounded pillars with ridge of triangles down outside edge, central round open-work pillar.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 27.50 centimetres
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Width: 45.50 centimetres
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Depth: 24 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Contemporary restrictions apply to the viewing of images of this object or photograph. If you wish to access this image, please contact the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (aoa@britishmuseum.org).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibition:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Acquisition notes
- Af1896,0511.1 to 8 are recorded as 'Kumasi stools and bell' given by Sir William Maxwell. They had evidently come from the 1895 Asante expedition.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1896,0511.7