Chair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Grebo people, Liberia. Found in collections. Seat 35 cm. x 52 cm. A low chair with 4 spool legs and a curved back-rest. Seat carved from a board about 2.5 cm. thick; center panel recessed; drilled for legs; back legs extended through seat to support back-rest. Back-rest broken off at ends, but drilled to fit over upright posts. Seat studded with round-headed brass nails in geometric pattern. Compare item 165,428 and 261,642 (returned to owner but illustrated in S.I. pub. 3101, fig. 2) from which this item is identified by comparison by G. D. Gibson. Could this be the "throne of the chief of the Fishmen" which Matthew C. Perry mentions taking in a raid on coastal Liberia in 1843?"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Apr 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Liberia (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Grebo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET320-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Chair
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 46 cm