Photographs © Tim Hamill
DOGON
FIGURE 12
28.5" high
$700
This figure has been vetted as authentic.
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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