DOGON, GRANARY DOOR, Mali
Photograph © John Urban
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These doors protected the grain and used a sliding door lock. Primordial beings, ancestors, Kanaga masks, sun lizards and scenes of life symbolically served to protect the entrance. The low reliefs are carved on several panels, held together by iron staples.
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