Chair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Aug 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Neville Chittick
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Large wooden framework back inlayed with small square and leaf designs in ivory. Back, seat, and sides laced with two strands of white cotton cord. Called kiti." Reference: Bravmann, Rene´ A. 1983. African Islam. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, Pl. 86, p. 108, and discussed on p. 109. Identified there as a kita cha enzi, Swahili.
label: Notes
content: From African Voices exhibit: "This "Chair of Power," or Kiti Cha Enzi in Swahili, belonged to a powerful and wealthy family, as evidenced by the ivory inlays."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kenya, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Swahili
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272775
label: USNM Number
content: E409943-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Chair