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Head stool
Object Number 99-12-70/53535
Display Title Head stool
Descriptions
Inventory Description Stool, curved seat, 5 anthropomorphic legs, striated surface, mended, perforated
Classification
  • Stool
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1808
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 14.5 x 31 x 12.9 cm (5 11/16 x 12 3/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-70/53535
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Collector Willet Coles
Collector Edmund Fanning
Owner Charles Willson Peale (1849-1850)
Owner David Kimball (1849-1850 - 1899)
Donor David Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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