Tribal Art

Among the elements of African furniture for daily use, a mossi stool from the Ivory Coast, whose circular seat is supported by five diamond-shaped legs. This type of stool for individual use, often carved in shea wood, marked the social rank of its owner and was not suitable in any way. Patina of use, desication cracks, erosions.
The Mossi are a people originating from Burkina Faso as well as the bordering regions of surrounding countries. More than five million people consider themselves Mossi, membership in this ethnic community being based on the practice of moré and on the practice of a certain number of traditions. In the 15th and 16th centuries, they constituted great kingdoms, the two main ones of which (Yatenga and Ouagadougou) remained independent until European penetration and were only subjugated with difficulty by the French colonizers. Animists, the Mossi worship a creator god by the name of Wendé . Each individual would have a soul, sigha, linked to a totemic animal. The Mossi provided a large workforce to the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Even today a strong Mossi community resides in Côte d'Ivoire. They speak Moré, the Voltaic language.