About the Artwork
Stool
no date
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African
Dahomey
Wood
Overall: 9 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 7 1/8 inches (24.1 × 41.9 × 18.1 cm)
Furniture
African Art
Gift of Frederick Stearns
90.1S14478
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Provenance
Frederick Stearns [1831-1907]
1890-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Leadership and Status Objects,” Bulletin of the DIA 91, no. 1-4 (2017): p. 28 (fig. 2.2).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Dahomey, African, Stool, no date, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Frederick Stearns, 90.1S14478.
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