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Outstanding African Republic of Benin Yoruba Figural stool

 

Measurement:        Height: 30 Width: 12.5 Depth: 12.25 Inches
Measurement:        Height: 77 Width: 32 Depth: 31 Centimeters
                                 Measurement Stool Only
Material:                 Wood, Paint
Estimated Age:       19th - 20th Century
Condition:               Good
Remarks:                Stylized stool supported by figures vivid color play aged surface

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CONDITION
Wood deterioration especially to base, age cracks tribally repaired, chips and scrapes, faded areas, overall condition very good. Thank you and please view my other items.

BACKGROUND
The Yoruba people live mainly in the southwest of Nigeria and the south of Benin. Moreover Yoruba traditions live on as far afield as Brazil, Cuba, Haiti and the Americas in the descendants of Yoruba slaves. The term "Yoruba" is said to derive from "Yarbanci,” a nickname given by the Hausa or the Fulani to the inhabitants of the Oyo Kingdom. This name was in turn introduced by missionaries from the middle of the nineteenth century, who were the first to study the Yoruba language. Prior to that, the Yoruba-speaking peoples referred to itself by the names of their different sub-groups. Earlier the Yoruba organized themselves into a large number of city-states, traditionally administered by kings (oba), who held political as well as religious power among the various autonomous city-states; the leading place was primarily occupied by Ileff and Old Oyo.



Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.

 
 

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