Asante Stool
Type: stool
Exhibits: Cycle of Life
Tribes: Akan peoples, Asante group
Location: western Africa
Period: 20th Century
Materials: Wood
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H:
43.50cm
Width:
57.00cm Depth:
32.00cm
SKU:
3083 The ancestral spirit of the Akan peoples was believed to reside not in figurative image, but in a specific stool, which ritually blackened with sacrificial offering. Ancestor cults for royal and non-royal Akan were focused on "stool rooms" where these symbols were housed.