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King Njoya of Bamum in the Uniform of an Officer with His Father's Throne in the Old Palace

King Njoya of Bamum in the Uniform of an Officer with His Father's Throne in the Old Palace
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Description: 1906 photo from Basel Mission Archives. Beaded throne of King Nsangu, father of King Njoya. Bamum, Cameroon. Late 1880s. Photograph delivered by Friedrich Lutz, May 1906 - African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon.

Bamum Kingdom
Sultan Njoya was an avid supporter of the arts who elevated Bamum sculptures and beadworks.

Njoya wearing a German officer's outfit, which was given to him by the Kaiser of Germany in exchange for the ancestral throne of Bamum.

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