The Dogon today number about 250.000 people and have lived since the 14th century on a giant high plateau in Mali, where different carving styles have been established in different parts of the region. They can all be attributed to the Tellem and Niongom art, two primitive people from this region.
Dogon figures stand in close contact to the ancestral cult of these tribes. They are mostly used in family settings and are of an artistically high level. Long, fine worked on faces, the same fine bodies and extremities, which either hang to the side of the body or stretch out above the head, combined with exceedingly buxom designed sexual characteristics.
This very old mother figure is related to the so-called Tintam style. These figures often represent people in daily situations – such as here telling a story and come from the north-east of the plateau, bordering on the former Djenne region, famous for their terracotta art.
Lovely weather worn patina. In the property of today’s owner since the 1980s. |
