The object comes from Senegal, hand-carved, partly colored black, made of Dimb wood (the tree grows there, bears large yellow fruits and is threatened by illegal deforestation), size 20 cm. Got it from the Senegalese art dealer Abdoul
Aziz (with warehouse in Röthenbach/near Nuremberg) acquired. He travels around a lot and also shops directly in African countries.
[hint: this is an automatic translation from German]
| Category: folk arts
| Material: Holz
| Country of origin:
Bavaria, Germany
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Similar pieces
You will see on the stylized turtle shell the exhibits arranged according to their similarity. Click on the turtle shell and explore the exhibition!
The pattern of a turtle resembles a mathematical Voronoi diagram. We use a Voronoi diagram here, which displays exhibits on a surface partitioned according to the similarity of the pieces. The similarities of the pieces are calculated by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
Das oben links dargestellte Objekt (farbig umrandet) ist das Referenzobjekt zu dem die ähnlichen Objekte dargestellt werden. Ein neues Referenzobjekt kann aus den angezeigten ähnlichen Stücken per Klick bestimmt werden. So kann man sich entlang von Ähnlichkeiten durch die Ausstellung bewegen.