Add to ORKGThe stool was reserved for the most powerful individuals in a community. Only a king or chief would have owned a stool like this one. Such objects did not always serve a practical function as seating but were deeply invested with symbolic significance.https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/african-sculptures-and-masks/1066/thumbnail.jp
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In Baule society, aesthetics play an important role not only in providing the sculptor with a worthy...
The Oba symbolizes the aspirations of a civilization at the highest level of authority. These sculpt...
This is a power figure made by a Kongo artist. These figures are meant to serve communities, helping...
The main function of the stool was not to serve as a seat, but rather as a receptacle for the chief\...
This statue was carved by the people of Mali. The statue is a horse stool. Bamana artists work in mu...
The traditional wood carvings are for ancestor and spirit cults, for initiation, medical and divinat...
The head is an idealized image of an oba, or king, of the Kingdom of Benin. portrait cast in bronze ...
The Oath Taker Fetish Power Figure by Kongo peoples. Central African power figures are among the ubi...
Seated Female figures with almond-shaped eyes, realistic mouth shapes, and curved eyebrows meeting o...
This oval-shaped mask carved of wood .They usually integrate different parts of their mythology that...
The Chokwe (or the Quiocos), one of Angola's most developed cultures in pre-colonial times, are best...
In recent years the name Banyamulenge has become associated with a warrior group in Eastern Congo be...
The sculpture seated Maternity is depicting a male seating on what seems to be a royal stool. Seated...
The dance mask of a type known as Mwana Pwo, is regarded as an idealized depiction of a beautiful yo...
This Suku fetish figure (as called in older literature) or power figure, is attributed to the Suku p...
In Baule society, aesthetics play an important role not only in providing the sculptor with a worthy...
The Oba symbolizes the aspirations of a civilization at the highest level of authority. These sculpt...
This is a power figure made by a Kongo artist. These figures are meant to serve communities, helping...