Stool ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3024693

Description

wood, shiny brown patina, circular form, tribe-typical facial features and headgears, min. dam., cracks (seat, base, neck, arm), slight traces of abrasion;
in the Cameroon Grassfields stools are important regalia of the chief. The open worked base is typical for this region. The leopard embodies certain attributes like velocity, survivability and aggressiveness which were transfered on the king. So he became the most important royal symbol, like an “alter ego” of the king.

The object Stool with the object ID 3024693 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 402 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.

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Comparing literature

Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 104 f.