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.  

Asante Stool
Asante Stool