Royal throne

Wooden chair of a Lunda chief. Its backrest is made of a narrow beam, decorated with geometric motifs, and a broader crosspiece with the figure of a man in the center, with open arms, holding two birds, and a monkey climbing a tree on each side. In the lower cross pieces several scenes are sculpted in full figure, such as men playing musical instruments and women grinding maize in a mortar. The lower end of the chair legs are carved in the shaped of animal hooves. The chair was painted in black and was varnished, a treatment that was possibly made only after its original acquisition, in 1959, by a doctor who worked for "Diamang", the Company in charge of diamond mining in Angola since 1917.