Brazilian Indigenous Alligator Stool

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Carving wooden sitting benches is a longstanding artistic practice among the Indigenous peoples in Brazil. These wooden stools are utilized … Read more Carving wooden sitting benches is a longstanding artistic practice among the Indigenous peoples in Brazil. These wooden stools are utilized for ceremonial purposes and everyday use in their communities. Each piece is unique, some are zoomorphic, representing animals of the Brazilian fauna and spiritual entities, while others take a more geometrical seat shape, painted with natural pigments or carved in eloquent designs.

The stools reflect the dialogue between art and artifact, sacred object and commodity, ancestral practice and innovation, Indigenous survival and environmental preservation. While exposed to contemporary demands and realities, they maintain characteristics that indicate the great aesthetic care and continuity of the original peoples of Brazil. Therefore, through this single object, all the variety, diversity, elegance, and resistance of Brazilian ancestral cultures, which are still alive and constantly changing, can be recognized.

Region: Xingu, Brazil
Ethnicity: Kamayurá
Morphology: Alligator
Material: wood, natural pigments and mother of pearl (eyes).
Dimensions: 47 x 43 x 132 cm
Weight: 27,1 kg See less