Early 20th Century Hand-Carved African Dogon Granary Door

Traveling Man Treasures Curiosity Vault is selling this Dogon Tribe Door – These doors were secured by a simple 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 traditionally carved into the door's surface, symbolically serving to protect the entrance by rendering it sacred. The low reliefs are carved on several panels and joined with iron staples. About the Tribe - 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 modern technology by thousands of years, having a deep understanding of the stars well before telescopes were invented. DIMENSIONS: 16.5" H x 11.5" W x 1" D (#3)