Foot bowl ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3032921

Description

wood, dark brown patina, a ring-shaped base, carved with a leopard, supporting the actual bowl carved with reptiles, dam., cracks, missing parts through insect caused damage;
the leopard embodies certain attributes like quickness, survivability and aggressiveness which were transferred on the king. So he became the most important royal symbol, like an “alter ego” of the king.

Comparing literature

Arnold, Bernd, Kamerun, Leipzig 1980, ill. 10 f.