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Baule Door - Ivory Coast

Item Id: 1760

Retail Price: $455.00
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Baule Door

Tribe: Baule

Country: Ivory Coast

Material: Wood, Pigment

Size: 39.5" (100 cm) Tall x 22.75" (58 cm) Wide

These Baule doors are becoming more rare with the movement of people away from the traditional village with mud huts to the more modern brick and mortar buildings.

The Baule name comes from their myth of origin. In the seventeenth century, in what is today known as Ghana, the Denkyera kingdom rose to prominence, but a dispute led to a dynasty leaving the country. Abla Poku, the queen, had to flee far from Kumasi with her people, the Asabu, whom she led through the forests, but their trip was brought up short by the Comoe river. she consulted her diviner, who told her that to ensure safe passage across the river, she would have to sacrifice her only child. So, eager to escort her people to the promised land, she decided the she herself would throw the child into the waters as an offering to the river gods, crying out "Baouli" ("My child is dead!"), and the followers are said to have adopted this word as the name for their people in honor of the queen's sacrifice.

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