Dogon Door Lock 06 This beautiful Tutsi vessel is

This beautiful Tutsi vessel is part of an incredibly special collection of pieces which took 8 years to curate

these platters have importance to the Zulu people of South Africa

These portrait masks come from the Ivory Coast and are hand-carved from indigenous woods and form part of the Baule society

It is an old staff hand-carved from wood

Dogon Door Lock 06 This beautiful Tutsi vessel isThis old object was sourced at an auction of rare collectors items being sold by private sellers. It is an old door lock hand carved from wood by the Dogon people of Mali. It was used for years as a lock on houses and granaries. The carvings and style of these locks range abstract and symbolic in representation of their ancestors. Those locks with carvings of ancestors are considered to offer additional protection by making the door sacrosanct.