Description : Door lock Mali, Dogon light brown wood, matt patina, crowned by a sitting pair of figures, the eyes inset with metal tags, bolt missing, min. dam., slight traces of usage, on base, locks of this type are of North African and Islamic origin. This finely carved example offered the protective power of ancestral spirits to the granary it guarded. H: 21,5 cm, (5443/075) H: 8.5 inch Provenance Coll. Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany Ketterer München, 128. Auction, lot 61 Literature Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Die Kunst der Dogon, Zürich 1995, p. 95
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