Wooden doors with elaborate relief carving would adorn the entrances to public and private spaces in the Baule culture. The carver would use the rectangular wooden surface as a canvas to depict decorative and allegorical compositions with human, animal and vegetal motifs. Compositions such as the one seen here, of a large fish swallowing a smaller fish, might allude to the social structure, as suggested by Baule art specialist Susan Vogel.
Wooden doors with elaborate relief carving would adorn the entrances to public and private spaces in the Baule culture. The carver would use the rectangular wooden surface as a canvas to depict decorative and allegorical compositions with human, animal and vegetal motifs. Compositions such as the one seen here, of a large fish swallowing a smaller fish, might allude to the social structure, as suggested by Baule art specialist Susan Vogel.
