Stunning Garden Door

Near a local coffee shop in a modest neighborhood of small houses and Mom-and-Pop stores, there is this stunning, one-of-a-kind garden door:

Are the faces flanking the oxen possibly monkey heads? Or people heads? Who carved this amazing door--a local artist, or an artist halfway around the world? Who lives behind the door?

And what might the rest of the house look like, if this is just the entrance?