The Cuban stool: evocation of the guajiras roots.

Abstract

The stool does not come from Cuba but from Spain, but over time it became the piece of furniture par excellence for the most humble classes of the Cuban fields. This is a very sturdy, high-back square-style seat. The main materials used in the stools are hard or semi-hard wood and leather, which can be goat or beef, nailed to the wood with large head tacks. Normally the leather in this furniture is not woven or painted and on many occasions it preserves the animal's hair. The stool is Cuba too, regardless of whether even the pharaohs sat on something they also called a stool. But that of ancient Egypt was very different from ours, as much as the one the French used during the 16th century calling it tabouret, a word formed by analogy from tambour. This work aims to present elements about the stool in Cuba as a symbol of identity, since the information that exists is not enough.