
Barn Gate
Small barn door with a turtle, one of the mythical animals of the dogon, on which there are carved four hare masks.
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List of the historical catalogue
Text and organisation of the original catalogue · Jesús Arrimadas Saavedra
In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being. The barns are usually located in height, they are small adobe silos on palafites intended to store food products. A small staircase allows access. These pantry can have different dimensions and in them they keep the dried or smoked meat, cereals, karite and substances for magic and divination and any other food or substance important to the owner of the barn. Like other symbols of wealth and power, they often present artistic engravings or sculptures. Beauty is indissociable from what is useful. The decoration of doors and locks, as is customary in African ornamentations, is a transmitter of a message, a proverb, advice or other kind of teaching. In a world where symbolology dominates, rare are doors that use a key or a lock, key or lock that is not necessary to enter the inside but yes to penetrate the inside of the message. Some ethnic groups such as Dogon or the Bambara They disable or remove the latch to desacralize it and sell it to tourists or art traders.
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Small barn door with a turtle, one of the mythical animals of the dogon, on which there are carved four hare masks.
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The main allegories of the dogon cosmogony, mainly several couples of the primordial ancestors and dancers with the masks, are represented in…
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The main allegories of the dogon cosmogony, mainly several couples of the primordial ancestors and dancers with the masks, are represented in…
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Enigmatic door FangIt's carved in rhombus on the top and bottom of a woman's face.
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Magnificent namji door with unarmed interdoor. the top and the bottom are carved with rhombuses, in the lower one stands a head…
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Artistic door with the most representative iconography of the Senufo.
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Simple and old lock Dogon that accuses the passage of time and of intemperies.
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Artistic dogon hut lock presided by the primordial couple. The body of the lock is decorated with geometric drawings.
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Lock in which a woman, probably the Yasigine, the mask sister, is represented, the only woman aurorized to participate in rites of…
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Artistic allegory of the horse carrying the ark in which the first Nommo came to earth with the first men at the…
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Fragment of sanctuary door in which several fang heads and two persons are appreciated with their hands interlaced above the vietre.
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In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being.
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In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being.
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In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being.
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In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being.
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In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being.
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In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being.
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In almost all of Africa, well-filled barns represent material wealth, security and well-being.
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Staircase intended to climb into the barns housed in the cavities of the Bandiagará.
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The barn is one of the main buildings of the West African villages.
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The barn is one of the main buildings of the West African villages.
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Nice barn door framed by two pairs of nomos And in the center two crocodiles, mythical animal.
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Old and rare dogon door, definitely corresponding to a collective barn given its size, since usually the barn doors are relatively small,…
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