Wooden Stool and Shield

Unidentified Bukedde maker

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late 19th-early 20th century

Wood

Overall: 3 13/16 × 13 1/4 in. (9.7 × 33.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

39.64.6940

Geography

Place Made: Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Furniture: Seating

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Publication History

Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 18.

Provenance

Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.

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