The Niger Bend | A Selection of Our Best Items |
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$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. | $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 |
$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 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. |
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