Huge Fulani calabash 09.01.1651
The calabash is symbolically the woman's womb. A natural, organic object, directly created by God in the image of the original placenta that contained the graphic signs, it is "of life", and the signs that cover it have meaning. They command the "things" they mean, and the craftsman of the motifs, in their layout, does a work that recalls the divine work. The geometric patterns inscribed on the calabash form a repertoire including the bar, the broken line, the zig-zag, the triangle, the square, the diamond, the crescent, the trapeze, the sawtooth, the circle is rare.
