Door lock · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3036847
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Size
H: 35,5 cm
H: 14.0 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, the corpus decorated with incised linear ornaments, crowned by a stylized bird, complete with bolt, min. dam., fine cracks, small missing parts, strong traces of abrasion
The object Door lock with the object ID 3036847 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 156.
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Comparing literature
Bilot, Alain et. al., Serrures du pays Dogon, Paris 2003, p. 141 f.