- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Granary door
- Date of Original:
- 1800/2012
- Subject:
- Dogon (African people)--Mali
Wooden doors--Mali
Fertility--Mali
Ancestor worship--Mali
Art, Dogon--Mali
Henderson, Al--Art collections
Henderson, Dana--Art collections - Location:
- Mali, 17.570692, -3.996166
- Medium:
- doors
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Carved wooden granary door created by the Dogon people of Mali.
A carved granary door like this one protected the window-like openings in to a Dogon family's grain storage building. The higher one's status in society, the more elaborately designed the door would be. The doors were decorated with images of ancestral spirits, kanaga masks and animal figures representing fertility in the land. The decorations made the doors sacred objects. This particular door was made for the art market, but it is carved well, and is a quality illustration of Dogon aesthetics and mythology.
Gift of Al and Dana Henderson to the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm07292011-129
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm07292011-129
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800/2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 door : wood ; 61 x 49 x 8 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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