Ceremonial Chair or Throne (citwamo ca mangu)
- Date
- 1800s
- Medium
- Wood, upholstery studs, leather
- Dimensions
- Overall: 107 x 55 x 55 cm (42 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Africa
- Culture
- Africa, Central Africa, Angola, Chokwe-style carver
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession
- 2024.140
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Starting around the 1500s, Chokwe and other African leaders and traders received fine chairs as gifts from Portuguese traders. Chokwe leaders adapted this symbol of power as their own, using it in tandem with stools, an earlier kind of prestige seat.