Yes. The Golden Stool is still the symbol of the Ashanti. Nobody should sit on it, touch it or even come close to it. Only the Asantehene may sit next to it but, on his throne. The Ashanti are convinced that all their ‘Spirits’, those of the now living, the deceased and the unborn, live in the stool:. Interesting, isn’t it?
(Photo: Collection of Tropenmuseum Amsterdam)
