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The helmet below has been sold and is left here for educational and research purposes
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Photographs © Tim Hamill
DOGON, 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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