This project looks at the arts of the Bamun and its neighbors in the grasslands of Cameroon (West Africa) from the vantage of invention, appropriation, and retranslation of local and foreign artistic and cultural elements from 1700 to the present.
Many of the art works we will be examining (and the issues around them) relate to the vital period of early colonialism and the striking ways that Islam, Christianity, German and French, to say nothing of other grasslands Cameroon cultures, were involved in the creation and promotion of art.
This new writing system was promoted by Njoya as a means to document pre-colonial Bamun history, medicinal knowledge, religious practice, and valued forms of court etiquette.
Cameroon Grasslands The Palace at Foumban, Bamun, c.
48.) Interior courtyard of the Palace at Foumban, Bamun, 1907 (fig.
10-23) Royal portrait with stool, Bamun Male figure, Bamileke, Cameroon, wood Royal mask of the Kah Society, Bamileke Mask with spider motif headdress, before 1914 (fig.
The selection of medicinal plant as new source of drugs is based mainly on herbal remedies used in traditional medicine (Distasi, 1995).
In the Bamun traditional medicine (Cameroon) certain plants are used to cure jaundice and other liver disorders (Moundipa et al., 2002).
Moundipa, P. F., Njayou, F. N., Yanditoum, S., Sonké, B. and Tchouanguep, F. Medicinal plants used in the Bamun region of the Western province of Cameroon against jaundice and other liver disorders.
www.bioline.org.br /request?tc05013 (1909 words)
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The Palace At Foumban, kingdom of Bamun, Cameroon.
Interior courtyard of Palace at Foumban, kingdom of Bamun, Cameroon.
Throne and footstool of Nsangu, King of Bamun, Cameroon.
The art of the grasslands area of Cameroon is a royal art, devoted to the veneration of ancestors and the enrichment of the Fon, the main chief of the individual "kingdoms."
The large figures of the Bamun, carved for and presented to the Fon, fall generally into two forms: representations of the Fon or one of his wives, and carvings of individual ancestors.
These are stored in shrines and guarded by individuals appointed by the Fon.
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Most Bamun art (and the work of other kingdoms of the Cameroon Grasslands) relates to kings and important chiefs, who defined their power by the display of prestige objects during important ceremonies.
Most of our Bamun works are masks or the large houseposts, which we are still mounting and working on the pages.
Languages on this page so far are BaAka, Bamun, Bantu Languages, Benga, Ganda, Gisu, and Ibibio.
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updated 3-28-2003 Bamun (Niger-Kordofanian) belongs to the Eastern Grassfields sub-branch of the Bantoid sub-branch of the Benue-Congo sub-branch of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages.
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Discusses the aesthetic sophistication of Bamun peoples of Fumban (historical capital of the Bamun Kingdom) in Cameroon.
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