Chief's Stool
Artist
Unknown
CultureBabanki peoples
Titles
- Chief's Stool
Dateearly 20th century
PlaceCameroon Grassfields
MediumWood, beads, and string
Dimensions16 7/8 × 15 3/4 × 15 7/16 in. (42.8 × 40 × 39.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frank Carroll
Object number2022.109
Not on view
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Department
African ArtObject Type
[1] Paul Gebauer (1900-1977), in situ photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Photograph Study Collection, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Bequest of Paul Gebauer, 1977. PSC 1977, 1.201, Roll 201, Frames 13-19, 29, 36, and Contact Sheet 201, dated Oct. 1940.
Exhibition HistoryThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, permanent exhibition, September 1, 2005 - November, 2021
Published References Newton, Francis, et al, A Guide to the Cameroon Art from the Collection of Paul and Clara Gebauer (Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1968), photograph at right of figures 36 and 92. Davis Gallery advertisement, Tribal Arts, vol. I, no. 38 (Summer 2005): 123. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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Catalogue raisonnéN/A
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Unknown African
1870–1900
Wood, sacrificial matter, cotton cloth, string, and glass beads
91.237
Unknown
late 19th-early 20th c.
Wood
2025.829
