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Descrizione : Female figure add to watchlistDogon, Mali, Area of Senou wood, dark brown, partly shiny patina, rising from bent legs with tapering knees, the elongated thin arms up to the head, the hands resting behind the ears, head with delicate scarification marks in the area of the temples and the cheeks, deepened eyes, pierced ears, forehead crest, min. dam., rep. (left leg), slight signs of abrasion, on wooden base, when a member of a clan died, a figure was removed from the ancestral shrine and was placed next to his corpse for a short time in order to absorb a part of the nyama or spiritual force of the deceased. Afterwards the spiritually strengthened figure was returned to the shrine, where now sacrifices could be made to obtain and secure health and fecundity. The figure forms a connecting line between the living and the spirits of their ancestors, including the founding father of the clan. H: 34,5 cm, (5125/016) Provenance Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium Literature Hélene, Leloup, Dogon Statuary, Strassburg 1994, ill. 71 Laude, Jean, African Art of the Dogon, New York 1973, p. 67, ill. 2 Ezra, Kate, Art of the Dogon, Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York 1988, p. 21
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