In the past, Ashanti seats not only had a purely practical function but also had a spiritual connotation. The seat was believed to be the seat of the owner’s soul and when not used it was leaned against a wall or upside down so that no other soul could appropriate it sitting on it.
According to the Ashanti, the seat related those who sat with the world of the afterlife, and no secret could exist between a seat and its owner.
In this case, this antique Mma gwa seat was made from a single piece of wood, with a curved rectangular seat supported by five columns, of which the central perforated rectangle was intended to be used only by an elderly woman.
Having time available it could be used to observe the countless signs of use that over the years this seat has been able to collect and imagine thousands of moments of a unique history of Africa.