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

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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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