stool
- Museum number
- Af1939,14.1
- Description
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Register 1939:
Wooden seat supported on 12 figures, each panel of three figures (one male, two female), forming one side of the support.
- Production date
- 1896-1902 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 30.50 centimetres
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Width: 37.10 centimetres
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Depth: 24.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register: "Yoruba tribe. Collected between Ijebu Ode and Ilorin."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Af1939,14.1 to 65 are recorded as having been collected in Nigeria by Col. W R M Iles between 1896 and 1902, the brother of Mrs Chauncy, the donor. Some were collected earlier, a few came from the Aro expedition (1901-2). Nos.1 to 15 are recorded as Yoruba; nos.16 to 18 are recorded from Arochuku; nos.19 to 65 are from northern Nigeria or from unrecorded locations, with the exception of nos.30 to 32 which are Ibibio.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1939,14.1