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Fiftine : oil lamps
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Product description
Those oil lamps called “Fitine”are the most beautifull creation of the Mande blacksmiths and have a wide geographical use, through Mali, Guinée, Ivory coast and Burkina Faso.
Mc Naughton, (“Iron Art of the blacksmith in the western sudan”) observe that oil lamps with a single cups were used for lighting homes, while those in several cups were used for nocturnal ceremonies.
Each element constituting the lamp would have a symbolic value: The cup for the mouth, the wick for the tongue.
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