Bamileke Stools Archives, Cameroon

BAMILEKE STOOLS ARCHIVES, Cameroon

The stools pictured below have been SOLD. They are left here for reference and education purposes.

Please see our BAMILEKE STOOLS PAGE for unsold stools.

BAMILEKE 1
SOLD

BAMILEKE 11
SOLD

BAMILEKE 49
SOLD

BAMILEKE
Stool 7
12"
SOLD

BAMILEKE
Stool 25
10"
SOLD

BAMILEKE
Stool 12
11.5"
SOLD

BAMILEKE
Stool 37
11"
SOLD

The stools below have been sold and are left here for reference and educational purposes.

BAMILEKE
STOOL 54
14.5" high
SOLD

BAMILEKE
STOOL 55
15" high
SOLD

BAMILEKE
STOOL 63
17" high
SOLD

BAMILEKE
BED CATALOG

BAMILEKE, STOOLS, Cameroon

Most Bamileke art (and the work of other kingdoms of the Cameroon Grasslands) relates to kings and important chiefs, who defined their power by the display of prestige objects during important ceremonies. Stools were among the most important of these objects. The motifs include leopards, human figures and heads, spiders, lizards and other subjects plus abstract designs. The spider, often found abstracted in repeating patterns,is a symbol of wisdom. The leopard; cunning, fast, mobile and guardedly aggressive, signifies the ability to survive and is the most important royal icon, often even the king's alter ego. Glass beads embellish the most important royal stools.

Many of these Bamileke stools show no evidence of age or use and were probably made to be sold.

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