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SUD-EST DU NIGÉRIA, AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST Ethnie Igbo
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SUD-EST DU NIGÉRIA, AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST Ethnie Igbo
Two doors carved in iroko wood with complex geometric patterns.
The heavy and considered sacred wood of the iroko was used for the doors of the Igbo palaces made of brick and dried earth or at the gates of the obi, the gathering houses of the men.
Iroko wood is associated with power and its mysteries, and the tree was ritually soothed before being felled. The wide boards, difficult to carve, show abstract motifs called uli and generations of erosion
H. 166 and 93 cm
Two doors carved in iroko wood with complex geometric patterns.
The heavy and considered sacred wood of the iroko was used for the doors of the Igbo palaces made of brick and dried earth or at the gates of the obi, the gathering houses of the men.
Iroko wood is associated with power and its mysteries, and the tree was ritually soothed before being felled. The wide boards, difficult to carve, show abstract motifs called uli and generations of erosion
H. 166 and 93 cm