Door lock ·  Mali, Bamana · ID: 3036522

Description

wood, slightly encrusted dark brown patina, metal sheet, in shape of an abstract figure with horns, incised geometrical decor, complete with cross-bolt, min. dam., slight traces of usage, 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.

Littérature comparée

Colleyn, Jean Paul (Hg.), Bamana, Zürich 2001, p. 60, ill. 29