Prestige stool (Kuo fo)
- Date
- possibly 1800s
- Medium
- 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.)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Africa
- Culture
- Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon, Bandjoun Kingdom, Bamileke makers
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession
- 2006.138
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
The beads on this stool were sewn on by hand. Look underneath the stool, however, and you can see commercially made printed fabric.