DOGON FIGURE 36, MALI
Photographs © Tim Hamill
DOGON, FIGURE 36, 12.5", $500, SOLD, Mali
Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, figures
such as these were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through
a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the figures depicted share
a timeless, serene quality necessary to the continuity of Dogon society.
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