Barn Gate
Senufo · Côte d’Ivoire
Reference: PRYCR-6
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- Height
- 96 cm
- Material
- Wood and pigments.
Artistic door with the most representative iconography of the Senufo. A crocodile carrying in its jaws a kalao, a stylized bicephalic turtle, of difficult significance and…
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Full original description
Artistic door with the most representative iconography of the Senufo. A crocodile carrying in its jaws a kalao, a stylized bicephalic turtle, of difficult significance and a snake, four of the five primordial animals of the senufo cosmogony. And a network of geometric digits whose meaning we ignore. They are often carriers of coded messages prohibiting the legs of these barns from being opened.
These barns are usually small silos on pallaphytes to make it difficult for rodents and other animals or insects to access. In them are stored grains, dry or smoked foods and also magical substances.
Further technical information
- Width
- 42 cm
- Attributed period
- First third of the century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Côte d’Ivoire. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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