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Dogon compound, town near Bandiagara escarpment, Mali, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
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Dogon compound, town near Bandiagara escarpment, Mali, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
Here the door to a granary is reached by a ladder carved from a large forked limb of a tree. Shallow steps are carved in the uppermost side of the ladder. In the past the doors to such granaries were carved with figures of spirits that protected the grain from damage.