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Description
Two primitive carved African Baule chairs. Made from indigenous local woods featuring yoke back, short legs and flat seat.
These low chairs were carried on the shoulders of village men as they went to attend social gatherings or community rituals.
Baule, an African people inhabiting Côte d’Ivoire between the Comoé and Bandama rivers. The Baule are an Akan group, speaking a Tano language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. They moved west to the Ivory Coast more than 200 years ago and adopted sculptural and masking traditions from their neighbors, the Guro, Senufo and Yaure peoples.
The ancestors of the Baule were a section of the Asante who immigrated to their present location under the leadership of Queen Awura Pokou about AD 1750, following a dispute over the chieftaincy, and assimilated many of the indigenous peoples. After 1790 quarrels between important families destroyed the unity of the Baule, though they continued to rule much of Côte d’Ivoire until the end of the 19th century.
Condition
Good Antique Condition; wear and distressing commensurate with age
Dimensions
21" x 17" x 24"h, seat 11", chairs vary slightly