Chair

Museum number: UEM1775 

Material: Wood 

Region and culture: Luba Kingdom

Description: A caryatid chair where a carved, kneeling woman is carrying the stool. It is in the shape of what is known as the Buli style, characteristic for the Luba people. The known Buli master who came from the village Kateba made the chair. 

Captain Sundt gave this chair to the Ethnographic museum. 1909. 

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