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A monolith from the Tondidarou region of Mali (from the Songhay tondi – ‘stone’ and dari – ‘standing’), recarved from an original made between 280-620 AD. A hardwood casting former for an archetypal concrete bollard. A domestic plant both décor and elemental form…[press release: gingko goethe garden, 2011]