Stool ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki · ID: 3036189

Description

wood, brown patina, pokerwork, ring-shaped base, carved with three leopards and three standing figures arranged in a circle, rep. (breakage at the seat), cracks, traces of abrasion;
in the Cameroon Grassfields stools are an important part of a chiefs regalia. The leopard embodies certain attributes like speediness, survivability and aggressiveness which were transferred on the king. This is why the animal became the most important royal symbol, like an “alter ego” of the king.

Comparing literature

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