Tool

African

  • Titles Tool (Descriptive)
  • Medium iron
  • Dimensions 14 x 3 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (35.6 x 8.9 x 3.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mortimer B. and Sue Fuller, 2006.179
  • Work Type tool
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Figurative Shrine Vessel, Mwana people, or Cham people, or Longuda people, Nigeria, African, fired clay
Spherical, brown vessel with black fire clouds has columnar, slightly convex neck with everted rim; shoulder has row of raised spiky points.
Carved wooden chair. Animals and figures on back seat crest, stretchers, and front stiles. Brass nail heads form eyes on some animals and figures, also applied as decorative elements. The seat is skin/hide which still has some remaining hair. It has been stretched over the seat rail and tied with strips of gut or hide.
Rattle, Democratic Republic of the Congo, African, fiber, string, seed pods