AFRICAN BAMOUM CARVED WOODEN TRIBAL SUITCASE: Wooden tribal suitcase from the Bamoun society of Cameroon. Used to store traditional clothes of the Kings successor. Profusely carved with giraffe for handles, lizards, openwork base. Carved lizard handles on removable top. Retailed by J. R. David, Granite Bay, CA, from their ''Inspiration Africa'' collection. Picasso once wrote ''I have felt my strongest artistic emotions when suddenly confronted with the sublime beauty of sculptures executed by the anonymous artist of Africa. These works of a religious, passionate, and rigorously logical art are the most powerful and most beautiful things the human imagination has ever produced.'' 16'' h. x 28 1/2'' x 16''.