This indigo-dyed ndop (display cloth) may be massive, but look closely and you will see that it is made from 58 two-inch wide, hand-woven cotton strips. At some point in the 1940s, artists across Cameroon worked together to create this work—from the male weavers who wove the cotton strips in the extreme northwest of the country to the female designers, dyers, and sewers who worked in Bandjoun and Foumban in the more central Grassfields region. Textiles like these were the favored backdrop of Bamum and Bamileke leaders, who would receive guests in reception areas decorated with these cloths.