African Cameroon Stools

African "bamileke" low stool, cameroon, 1970s. It's difficult to date exactly as it has been ebonised at some point in this lovely dark "glossy" black color.

Circa 1980s round dark wood stool or side table. Hand-carved by a tribal artist in Cameroon, this style is known as a spider stool because of its knobby w...

Ashanti tribal stool from Ghana.

Bamileke Stool from Cameroon. Hand-carved from one piece of wood Most Bamileke Art relates to kings and important chiefs, who defined their power by the display of prestige objects d...

From Cameroon these single piece of wood carved stools make wonderful side tables as well....

An indicator of status and family, stools play an integral role in traditional Ashanti culture. Believed to be the resting place for a person's soul, a stool is given to a child when they first learn to crawl and used in personal milestones throughout the rest of their life. Carved from a solid block of wood, each stool has a rectangular base and a distinctive curved seat supported by a central column and four corner posts. While some ceremonial stools are carved to convey particular proverbs, this stool is simply decorated with scalloped edges, geometric patterns, and a small cross. The combination of shapes and curved lines makes this Ashanti stool...