DOGON FIGURES, MALI Style

 

DOGON Style
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DOGON
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 Dogon Style
Ironwork

 

Dogon Style
Horsemen

Dogon Style Riders
Cast Bronze
 

Dogon
Stools

 

Dogon Style
Couples

 

 Dogon Style
Satimbe Masks

 

Dogon
House Doors

 

 Dogon Style
Metal Couples

 Dogon
Toguna Posts

 Dogon Style
"Tellem" Figures 

 Dogon Style
Metal Maternity

 

Dogon Style
Maternity

 

Dogon Style
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Photographs © Hamill Gallery

DOGON STYLE FIGURES, Mali

Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies. Traditionally, most of the couples are two freestanding figures, conceived as a unit, and posed frontally, symmetrically, in formal postures and of equal size.

Sculpted as stools and headrests, the male and female figures serve as symbolic supports, or as handles when worked into the design of bowls. Couples also appear as decorative elements on African doors.

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