Early-to-Mid 20th Century Hand-Carved African Dogon Granary Door
Traveling Man Treasures Curiosity Vault is selling this exquisite antique Dogon Tribe Door. These doors were secured by a sliding door lock and protected the window-like opening into each family's grain storage building. Primordial entities, ancestors, Kanaga masks, sun lizards, and life scenes were often carved into the front surface, symbolically serving to protect the entrance by rendering it sacred. The low reliefs are carved on several panels and joined with iron staples.The Dogon are an ethnic group from Mali's central plateau region that extends into Burkina Faso. They arrived in the area around the 14th century CE. The majority of them live in the rocky hills, mountains, and plateaus of the Bandiagara Escarpment. The Dogon people are shrouded in mystery due to their knowledge of astronomy that pre-dates new-age technology by thousands of years, having a deep understanding of the stars well before telescopes were invented.DIMENSIONS: 16.25 H x 12.25 W x 1 D(#5)