Traditional Bamileke Kings stool - Cameroon.

The size are 38 cm high and 30 cm in diameter.

Also called African stool, King’s stools, or birds’ nests, 

This Bamileke table come from Cameroon and is an iconic piece of African furniture. They were traditionally used by the Bamileke Tribe for public ceremonies. Today they are globally used in bohemian and eclectic, country and farmhouse style interior designers.

The intricate pattern you see in these represents the web of the earth spider, a symbol of divine wisdom.

The Bamiléké are a group of 90 closely related peoples who inhabit the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. According to Dr John Feyou de Hapy, Bamiléké means people of faith.The Grassfields people do not refer to themselves as Bamileke but instead use the names of the individual kingdoms to which they belong or else refer to themselves as "Ngrafi" for “grassfields people"