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Central and Southern African Tribal Art

 

 

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Masks / Masques

Neck Rests

Headdresses

 Spoons / Ladles 

Status Objects

Thrones / Stools

 

Tribal Weapons

Wooden Vessels

Figures

Contemporary

Hair Ornaments

Adornment

Miscellaneous

Beer -Wine Cups

 

Musical Instruments

 

Zulu Imbenge

 

Pipes - Snuff Bottles - Snuff Spoons

 

Dolls

 

Clay Pots

 

 

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Significant African Thrones & Stools

 

 

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Ba Tonka or Tonga Figurative Stool

 

Zambia - Zimbabwe

 

Circa 1950's

 

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The extremely well executed baboon stool was rediscovered in a South African colonial context.

 

This fine artwork likely dates to the 1950's.

 

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The stool has old and stabilized insect damage to either side. The damage does not detract from the object, which in our view depicts what must be the most artistically carved baboon known from the area.

 

 

Related Mbunda stools were discovered west / north west "upstream" on the Zambezi.

 

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Ken Karner vintage antique artefact artifacts artifact artefacts

 

 

Chokwe Throne Strut

 

Angola 1930's

 

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The artifact sold at Sotheby's NY in the 1970's and remains tagged.

 

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Lucahazi Throne

 

Angola 1930's

 

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Collected in Western Zambia from Angolan Immigrants

 

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Luchazi Throne

 

Angola 1930's

 

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Note that both struts display well together.

 

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Ba Tonka or Tonga Stool - Ngoni

 

Rediscovered in the UK.

 

 

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The legs of this stool have a powerful Ngoni - Zulu feel.  It is not impossible that it was collected further down river from the Ba Tonka, where Ngoni people had settled.

 

        

 

Ba Tonka stools are normally oval as these two old examples.

 

 

Rare Double Sided Form

 

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Pokot Stool - Neck Rest

Circa 1950

 

 

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This Pokot stool is only 19 cms, or 7.5 inches and would have

 certainly doubled as a neck rest.

 

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Kamba Stool (Akamba) - East Africa

 

Circa 1940's

 

 

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This fine stool is  inlayed with beads and what might be 1000 bits of copper wire.

 

 

The Living Races of Mankind Vol ll Page 339 - Circa 1900

 

The Kamba are neighbors of the Kikuyu and therefore had related stools.

 

 

 On it's underside is found the most adorable creature in human form......

 

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