Carved Wooden Stool "Libba Bangi"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Donald C. Butts
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. K W. Butts
notes: label: Notes
content: SPECIMEN IS A CRESCENTAL-SHAPED STOOL CARVED FROM A SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD. LEGS PARALLEL TO CONCAVE CRESCENT-SHAPED SEAT WHICH IS CARVED IN LOW RELIEF WITH SYMMETIRCAL CURVILINEAR DESIGNS. HATCHED CARVING ON SIDES OF STOOL. THE "LIBBA BANGI" IS ONE OF SIX OR SEVEN FORMS OF STOOL COMMON IN BUSH NEGRO [sic] SOCIETY (SEE P. DARK 1954 BUSH NEGRO ART: AN AFRICAN ART IN THE AMERICAS pp. 32-35.)
label: Notes
content: The Recovering Voices Community Research Visit of Matawai Maroons from Suriname took place September 8-19, 2018. These comments were made by community members, elder Jozef Dennert, bassia Tina Henkie, and Rolien Sallons on Friday, September 14, 2018. The group conferred on comments to make about the collections objects so all notes are attributed to the group as a whole. The Matawai word for this is "alala bangi." This particular stool could be either Matawai or Saramaccan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Suriname, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Suriname Maroon
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 277656
label: USNM Number
content: E409785-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stool