The Niger Bend | A Selection of Our Best Items |
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$600.00 3 leg stool with head
item #568Burkina Faso - Lobi This fully patinated stool is very well used. It measures 22" long and 8 1/2" in height. Please click on the image for 2 more views. | $750.00 4 head stool
item #566Guinea - Baga This fine stool measures 13.5" tall and 10" diameter. Please click on the image for another view of this unusual stool. |
$1500.00 4 leg round stool
item #572Ivory Coast - Senufo 15 1/4" tall, 20 1/2" diameter. Please click on the image for 2 more views. | $3000.00 5 leg stool
item #567Ivory Coast - Senufo This stool is quietly elegant in its simplicity. This is one of the most extraordinary stools I have ever seen. There are plenty of 4 leg round stools though few which are so much taller than they are round and none with an extra, fifth leg in the center, with no apparent function except to demonstrate the exceptional skill of the man who carved it. The height is 18"; the diameter 13". Please click on the image for 2 more views of this truly great stool. |
$750.00 Akan style stool
item #582Ivory Coast - Baule 14 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 12 1/4" tall. Please click for another view. | $750.00 Animal and man head stool
item #828Nigeria - Yoruba 10 3/8 x 9" top, 14 5/8" tall |
$750.00 Animal stool
item #829Nigeria - Yoruba 8" diameter top, 11 1/2 x 12 1/2" overall, 10 1/2" tall | $600.00 Another round common stool
item #577Burkina Faso - Gourmantche 13" height, 12" diameter. Solid patina on top, worn all around. This stool was used for a long time. Please click for more views. |
$1950.00 Authentic 4-leg stool
item #565Togo - Fon The design of this stool is unlike any other tribal design among African stools. The same thing can be said about so many of the other designs available across the continent but this one is truly among the most unusual. The round top measures 15 1/2" in diameter. It is 9" tall. The leg span measures 21 x 13". Please click on the image for 2 more views of this very unusual stool. | $1800.00 Back Rest
item #491Congo - Kuba This is a fabulous sculptural, yet functional, authentic object. The Kuba people lean against this while seated on the ground. |
$975.00 Back rest decorated with metal tacks
item #819Congo - Kuba This is a fabulous sculptural, yet functional, authentic object. The Kuba people lean against this while seated on the ground. Overall height on stand: 21". Dimensions of the object itself: 20 x 7 1/2" | $500.00 Black common round stool
item #575Burkina Faso - Gourmantche This is another "common" round stool, found often in the compounds of Africa. This one, measuring 12" tall and 11" diameter, has been smoked to blacken it and is in excellent condition. Please c |
$1500.00 Crocodile chameleon stool
item #835Ghana - Ashanti 20 1/2 x 11 7/8 x 14 3/4" tall | $1500.00 Crocodile stool
item #822Ghana - Ashanti 20 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 14 1/4" tall |
$950.00 Double design stool
item #576Burkina Faso - Gourmantche This is a great modification on the more common round stool design. It is 11 3/4" tall, 10 3/4" diameter. Please click for another view. | $500.00 Double hornbill stoolSOLD 
item #825Guinea - Baga 16" diameter x 15" tall |
$1250.00 Double lion table
item #815Benin - Fon 22 1/4" diameter, 17 1/2" tall, made of monkey pod wood | $750.00 Eagle on turtle stool
item #824Ghana - Ashanti 20 x 10 x 16" tall |
$600.00 Elephant stool
item #778Ghana - Ashanti length 16 1/4", height 12" Please click on the image to view the other side of this fine old stool. | $1500.00 Elephant stool
item #805Benin - Fon 18 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 17" tall |
$750.00 Elephant stool
item #806Ghana - Ashanti 18 x 10 x 12 1/2" tall | $1500.00 Elephant stool
item #809Ivory Coast - Senufo 21 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 9 3/4" tall |
$1500.00 Elephant table
item #812Benin - No tribal association 24" diameter, 23 /4" tall, made of monkey pod wood | $6000.00 Extraordinary large crocodile stool
item #369Ghana - Ashanti 23 1/2 x 12 x 20". This is an exceptional Ashanti stool: exceptional in size, exceptional in quality, exceptional in age, exceptional in design. |
$600.00 Flower stool
item #836Benin - No tribal association 19 x 11 x 18 1/2" tall | $500.00 Large "common" round stool
item #569Burkina Faso - Gourmantche This is a nice example of the stools you find in almost every compound in the African bush. At 16" tall and 13 1/2" in diameter this one is quite large by comparison with most. The vast majority of Africans live in villages rather than cities and most of those live in "compounds", groups of huts, usually round, each belonging to a member of one family. Furniture is limited; the most common item of furniture is the round stool of which this one is very characteristic though most are much smaller than this one. Most often these common stools are used outside and get moved around quite casually so are not maintained in the way we tend to maintain our furniture; a lot of wear is always common. This one has lots of wear around the sides and the top is very heavily patinated. The base of this one broke in normal use but was still - and remains to this day - useful so it continued to be used even in its imperfect condition. Please click on this image for another view. |
$900.00 Large heavy common stool
item #580Burkina Faso - Gourmantche 13 1/2" tall, 18" diameter. Please click for another view. | $2500.00 Large heavy old lion stool
item #820Ghana - Ashanti 22 3/4 x 12 x 19 1/2" tall |
$6000.00 Largest old leopard stool
item #816Ghana - Ashanti 23 x 15 x 21" tall. This is an exceptional, old stool that almost certainly would have been used only by a member of the Ashanti royal family. | $15000.00 Largest reclining bed
item #783Ivory Coast - Gurunsi Overall length 62", height at tallest point 44 3/4", height at lowest point 10". This is the only object of this type in this size I have ever seen. Please click on the image 2 more views of this magnificent piece of African furniture. |
$1950.00 Leopard stool
item #540Ivory Coast - Baule 31 1/2" long, 13" tall. Please click on the image to view the other side of this extraordinary sculptural object, and a closeup of it. | $500.00 Leopard stool
item #811Ivory Coast - Baule 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 x 9 3/4" tall |
$1200.00 Lion motif chair
item #138Benin - Fon 38" tall. The lion is the symbol of the royal family of the Abomey kingdom. This chair is carved one a single piece of wood. The wood is an exotic tropical wood called monkey pod. This chair is built to last; it will never wear out. The price of a set of four of this same chair design is $4,000. Please click on the image to see another view of this beautiful chair. We also have a variety of other designs of this chair. | $900.00 Lion stool
item #780Ghana - Ashanti 24 x 18 1/2". Please click on the image for another view of this old, authentic stool. |
$750.00 Lion stool
item #807Ghana - Ashanti 19 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 11" tall | $2800.00 Long low bench
item #817Burkina Faso - Lobi 39 1/4 x 3 x 5 1/2". This very old bench is an extraordinary design and a very unusual object of African art. |
$6000.00 Long Senufo crocodile bed with turtle
item #23Ivory Coast - Senufo | $3600.00 Long, low bench
item #12Ivory Coast - Senufo 44 1/2 x 17 x 10 1/2" tall |
$1800.00 Man on lion stool
item #821Ghana - Ashanti 19 1/2 x 10 7/8 x 16 3/4" tall | $2500.00 Medium mushroom shape dowry stool
item #579Guinea - Malinke 14 1/2" tall, 22 1/4" diameter. Please click for another view. |
$1000.00 More 4 leg round stools
item #573Ivory Coast - Senufo 19 1/4" diameter, 14 1/2" tall. Please click for another view of this one and of another similar stool which measures 18" diameter and 16 1/4" tall, $800. | $5000.00 Mushroom shape dowry stool
item #578Guinea - Malinke This great stool is closer to a table. 17" height, 29" diameter. Well used. When a girl gets married she sits on the stool and her dowry is arrayed beneath her, around the stool. This is a very large piece of furniture. Please click for another view. Please see another, smaller one elsewhere on this page. We have 2 more that are even larger than this one. |
$500.00 Name stool
item #779Benin - Fon 19 1/2 x 14 1/2". Please click on the image for 2 more views of this old, used, very personalized stool. | $3500.00 Old Ashanti bird stool
item #72Ghana - Ashanti |
$2800.00 Old bed
item #15Ivory Coast - Senufo 71 1/2" long x 20 3/4" wide x 10" high (18" high at highest point). | $1800.00 old bed
item #533Ivory Coast - Senufo 64 x 17 x 12" tall (162 x 43 x 30 cm) |
$750.00 Old crocodile stool
item #823Ghana - Ashanti 19 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 15 1/4" tall | $2500.00 Old flat stool
item #78Ivory Coast - Senufo 26 x 18 x 12" tall |
$300.00 Old Reclining Chair
item #355Guinea - Malinke | $1200.00 Oversize spider web design large stools
item #564Cameroon - Bamileke This is a stylized version of the traditional spider web design stool portrayed elsewhere on this page. This stool measures 15" in diameter by 15" tall. |
$1200.00 Pair of small spider stools
item #563Cameroon - Bamileke These two almost identical stools are almost the same size. One is 11" in diameter and 11 3/4" tall; the other is 10 1/2" in diameter and 11 1/2" tall. Either stool is available individually for $800. Please click on the image for another view of this great pair of stools. | $1500.00 Parrot on turtle stool
item #810Ghana - Ashanti 20 x 11 3/4 x 16" tall |
$750.00 Parrot stool
item #827Togo - Fon 18 x 8 1/8 x 16" tall | $400.00 Penis handle stool
item #570Togo - Ewe This interesting stool is 15" long and 6 1/2" tall. As it was told to me this stool is normally used by women. It stands out among African stools in that it is given to a woman by her husband when he travels to remind her of him and thereby guarantee her faithfulness. The representation is spiritual, not functional. Please click on the image for another view of this stool. |
$1250.00 Single lion table
item #813Benin - Fon 21 1/2 " diameter, 20" tall; this is an old, used table | $1500.00 Single lion table, map of Africa top
item #814Benin - Fon 26 x 20 1/2" top dimensions, 17 3/4" tall, made of monkey pod wood |
$500.00 Small horse stool
item #581Ivory Coast - Senufo 12" from head to tail, 10 3/4" tall. | $1200.00 Small mask image stool
item #574Ivory Coast - Baule This old authentic stool is an unusual carved artifact. 10 1/2" height, 10 1/2" diameter. Please click for another view. |
$1500.00 Small spider web stool
item #561Cameroon - Bamileke This is an exquisite, genuine stool, in perfect condition. It measures 12 1/2" tall and 12 1/2" in diameter. Please click on the image for another view of this unusually beautiful stool. | $1000.00 Snail stool
item #808Ghana - Ashanti 19 x 10 x 12 3/4" tall |
$3900.00 Spider web stool
item #560Cameroon - Bamileke This stool is genuine. It was used in Cameroon for many years. It is of the finest quality. There are many stools of this design available which are newly made but this one is authentic and old. It measures 17" tall and 15 1/4" in diameter. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this superb stool. | $500.00 Square bottom round top stool
item #571Mali - Bozo This uncommon stool has a top measuring 17 x 18 1/2" and 13" tall. Please click on the image for another view. |
$600.00 Stool with drawer
item #818Togo - Fon 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 x 13 3/4" tall. | $1950.00 Tall 2-level stool
item #562Togo - Fon This exceptional stool measures 22" tall and 14 1/2" in diameter. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this extraordinary stool. |
$950.00 Tall stool
item #781Benin - Fon 21 x 28 1/2". Please click on the image for another view of this fine old stool. | $800.00 Woman caryatid stool
item #826Mali - Bamana 11 7/8" diameter x 21 1/2" tall |
$400.00 woodblock stool - fifth set
item #539Ivory Coast - No tribal association 22" tall. Please click on the image to see another view of this great, if sculptural by chance, object. The fascinating thing about these stools is that every time you turn them they look different. Also here is another one, 22 1/2" tall. | $400.00 woodblock stool - first set
item #535Ivory Coast - No tribal association 21 1/2". The man who made these stools did not start out with the intention of making a stool. He chose a hardwood log against which he chopped softer wood into pieces people use to burn to cook over. The log serves to protect the choppers axe. The majority of people in Africa cook over open flames. Wood is the fuel. Slowly, after a lot of wood has been chopped, the log is worn away. The man turns it so it wears evenly and just before it breaks through he stands it up and uses it as a stool. Please click on the image to see 2 more of these haphazardly sculptural objects. The second one measures 19 1/2", the third 19 3/4". |
$600.00 woodblock stool - fourth set
item #538Ivory Coast - No tribal association 22" tall. This stool is exceptional among a stool type that is exceptional. Please click on the image to view two more of the regular variety of these beautiful sculptural stools, each of which is $400. The second one of those measures 20" tall, the third one 24". | $400.00 woodblock stool - second set
item #536Ivory Coast - No tribal association 22 1/2", please click on the image to see 2 more of these unusual design stools. The second measures 18" tall, the third 21" tall. |
$400.00 woodblock stool - third set
item #537Ivory Coast - No tribal association 20" tall, please click on the image to see 2 more: the second is 28" tall, the third 21". |
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