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Happy ! Here's a 16th-19th c. wood "aduno koro" ("ark of the world") offering vessel, used by the Dogon people (Mali) for Goru, a winter solstice ritual. The horse-ark vessel is the primordial ancestral spirit Nommo, transformed to transport the 8 original human ancestors, represented by the figures on the side. The reptilian figure in between them is the black crocodile Ayo Geu, who later killed Nommo.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection. Full story here: metmuseum.org/art/collection/s