Stool, handicraft of the Ngombe people, tropical wood (around 1950, beautiful patina), decorated with approx. 1,000 upholstery nails, size 29 x 26 cm. These seats testified to the status of the owners. It is also interesting to compare the dotted decorative scars (scarification, a deeply rooted tradition of different peoples) on the skin of this ethnic group, but also among the Luba (also largely from the Congo), where dot patterns sometimes occur all over the body.
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| Category: folk arts
| Material: Holz
| Country of origin:
Mongala, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Similar pieces
You will see on the stylized turtle shell the exhibits arranged according to their similarity. Click on the turtle shell and explore the exhibition!
The pattern of a turtle resembles a mathematical Voronoi diagram. We use a Voronoi diagram here, which displays exhibits on a surface partitioned according to the similarity of the pieces. The similarities of the pieces are calculated by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
Das oben links dargestellte Objekt (farbig umrandet) ist das Referenzobjekt zu dem die ähnlichen Objekte dargestellt werden. Ein neues Referenzobjekt kann aus den angezeigten ähnlichen Stücken per Klick bestimmt werden. So kann man sich entlang von Ähnlichkeiten durch die Ausstellung bewegen.