Stool
Tribe: Baga
Country: Guinea
Material: Wood
Size: 20.5"w x 15"h
The distinction between a populace that sits on the ground and a ruling rank that sits on an ornamented stool has a long history, and likely predates the coming of the Europeans. The stool for the elders is well-known among the Baga, and has been collected by museums and private collectors throughout Europe and America. Figures of the sacred characted D'mba supporting the circular seat would invoke images ofrighteousness and beauty, and to see the figures would be a special privilege, as the D'mab figures separately carved and used on clan shrines would normally have been seen only by the ritually sanctified.
*Art of the Baga - Lamp ISBN:0-945802-18-8 |
