Door (Korugo)
Nyaamadyo Kone
1900–1950
- Medium
- Wood
- Dimensions
- 136.5 × 64.7 × 3.8 cm (53 3/4 × 25 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
crocodileshorsemensenuforitualsupernaturalshrineswoodanimalsNorthern Africa and the Sahelsnakesmasksbirdswood (plant material)natural worldafrican Artarts of Africacarvingarchitectural fragment
About
Nyaamadyo Koné worked in the vicinity of the influential regional woodcarving center of Kolia, and was among very few Senufo artists of the 20th century to achieve fame for making doors with bas-relief decorations of this size and complexity. Carved on commission, this door adorned a small building that served as a shrine and consultation room for a ritual specialist. Its images of animals and face masks evoke sources of natural and supernatural power.