The Weight of the Stool
Authority is carved, never claimed
Each sangba stool bears the irreversible mark of its maker — legitimacy earned through visible craft.
The court remembers what lips forget
Pyrogravure panels along the council walls serve as a permanent ledger of judgments and succession.
Iron outlasts the hand that forged it
Ngbaka double-bells carry the resonance of ancestral ceremonies into every new generation.
No surface left unmarked, no story left untold
Dense ornament is not decoration — it is the accumulated memory of a ruling people.