DOGON STYLE HELMETS ARCHIVES, MALI

The helmets below have been sold and are left here for educational and research purposes



DOGON STYLE
Helmet 14
SOLD
 


DOGON STYLE
Helmet 12
SOLD


DOGON STYLE
Helmet 13

SOLD

Photographs © Tim Hamill

DOGON STYLE Helmets, Mali

All of these were probably made to be sold.

Helmet 12 is forged iron.

Helmet 13 is cast bronze, a copper alloy.

Helmet 14 is cast bronze, a copper alloy and forged iron.

These forged iron masks, figures, lamps and other objects exhibit the technical skill and artistry that Dogon blacksmiths brought to their work. They would do the smelting to get the iron from iron ore, then heat and hammer out both the tools and weapons used and the important ritual objects.

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