  
Lamp 1 33.5" high $600 |
 
Lamp 2 41.5" high $900 |
 
Lamp 3 37" high $350 |
Lamp 4 35" high $250 |
Lamp 5 33" high $300 |
Lamp 6 36" high $350 |
Staff 9 39" high $350 |
Lamp 11 39" high $350 |
The Dogon iron pieces below have been sold and are left here for educational and research purposes.
Lamp 7 SOLD |
Staff 8 SOLD |
Lamp 10 SOLD |
DOGON, Iron Lamps, Mali
Functional iron lamps exhibit the technical skill and artistry that Dogon and Bamana 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.
These functional iron lamps, with bowls to burn oil, could, with the addition of a figure, express status, prestige and power. They would bring honor to the ancestors, the current leadership and the owner of the lamp. They usually depicted a former leader, seated, standing or on horseback. Some would depict a hogon, the supreme officeholder, a semi-divine leader of great wisdom, or even a mythological emissary from a distant land.
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