Chair

Small, low chairs similar to this one are used throughout much of Côte d'Ivoire. A chair is typically owned and used by an individual man. It is carried over the shoulder when he leaves his house for a social gathering in the community.

Low, plain wood chair composed of thin, curved back rail on two side supports that join into two rectangular side pieces. A flat platform rests between the two rectangles and the whole chair is supported by four tapering legs.

African trader, Liberia, -- to 1965-1967

Robert and Nancy Nooter, Washington, D.C., 1965-1967 to 1968

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