Door
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Massive carved doors were sometimes placed at the main entrance of traditional Bamana or Bozo homes. Housing several generations and branches of a family, such domestic structures were built of sun-dried mud bricks and consist of a series of rooms arranged around one or more courtyards and connected by a surrounding wall. Doors at the main entrance sometimes depict animals that are sought by hunters or that figure in creation myths and migration legends. This door depicts two crocodiles, whose rough scaly hide is represented by a series of raised bumps, and two snakes, whose diamond-patterned skin is indicated by incised lines.
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