Early 20th Century Hand-Carved African Dogon Granary Door Art Deco Crafted in the early 1900s

Crafted in the early 1900s

These ancient knives were strictly talismanic

as well as decorative geometric carvings on its sides

strongly resembles iconography of anthropomorphic deities found in ancient Peruvian cultures such as the Moche

being both beautiful and useful

Early 20th Century Hand-Carved African Dogon Granary Door Art Deco Crafted in the early 1900sTraveling Man Treasures Curiosity Vault is selling this Dogon Tribe Door These doors were secured by a simple sliding door lock and protected the window like opening into each family's grain storage building. Primordial entities, ancestors, Kanaga masks, sun lizards, and life scenes were traditionally carved into the door's surface, symbolically serving to protect the entrance by rendering it sacred. The low reliefs are carved on several panels and