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Lot Essay
Timothy Garrard (Barbier, 1993, p.46) notes that every Senufo village had a massive bed called gbag. It had a high importance for the villagers as it was used for funerary rituals. When a new village was founded, funerals couldn't be celebrated before the carving of a gbag was ordered from the blacksmith by the chief. Cf. Barbier, J.-P., fig. 46 for a closely related gbag bed.