Three West African Figural Beadwork Stools, Bamun Peoples

Cameroon or vicinity, second half 20th century, carved wood wrapped in canvas cloth with intricate glass seed beadwork star and banded patterns, each featuring a sculptural form of a monkey at center, in graduated sizes.

Largest 19 3/3 x 18 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.; medium 17 x 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.; smallest 14 1/2 x 11 x 11 in.

From the Estate of the late Francine Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Some areas of bead loss, rubbing and staining.