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Photographs © Tim Hamill
MOSSI ART, Burkina Faso
Owned by Mossi girls and women, these small figures that we call "dolls" could function both as a toy for a young girl or as an object to promote the fertility of a woman. All show some variation of the special coiffures worn by Mossi women.
The Mossi, better known for their wood figures, posts, doors, dolls and headdresses, also cast these elegant brass heads depicting and honoring ancestors.
Mossi doors, like those of the Igbo, are abstract, but have doorlocks similar to the Dogon and Bamana but more massive.
GO TO MOSSI HEADS PAGE (ALL SOLD)
GO TO GEOMETRIES EXHIBITION PAGE
GO TO NEW ADDITIONS PAGEHEADS PAGE
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