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Prestige stool (Kuo fo)
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated possibly 1800s. Recorded culture or place: Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon, Bandjoun Kingdom, Bamileke makers.
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- Museum title
- Prestige stool (Kuo fo)
- Date
- possibly 1800s
- Culture / origin
- Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon, Bandjoun Kingdom, Bamileke makers
- Materials and technique
- Wood, cotton, plant fiber, glass beads, and indigo
- Dimensions
- Overall: 51 x 38 x 43 cm (20 1/16 x 14 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2006.138
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Bead-covered wooden stools and thrones are one of the most prevalent art forms among the various kingdoms and chiefdoms in the Cameroon Grassfields region. This example, once part of the royal treasury, belongs in the category of "travel stools," usually used in conjunction with more private, minor ceremonies and rituals at the palace. The leopard imagery confirms the object’s royal status. It alludes to the belief that the king could temporarily transform himself into this feared predator.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund · CC0
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