wood and hide 20th century drum display the dallas museum art texas

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Wood and hide 20th century drum on display in the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas.

Pictured is a wood and hide 20th century drum on display in the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas. It was made by the Senofu peoples in Cote d'lvoire. The carved imagery on this drum includes a kpeliye face mask of a men's secret society and a python flanked by birds, message carriers to and from the spirit world. A giant lizard symbolizes destructive forces, a turtle references water and the creation of the world, and shackles refer to ancestral Senufo villagers taken captive during the Islamic jihads of the 19th century.