Statuette - Dogon - Mali (No reserve price)

The Dogons form a community of about 700,000 people whose heart beats in the "Dogon Country", between the Bandiagara cliff and the Niger bend. Although mainly settled in Mali, there are also members of this ethnic group in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. This millet-farming and blacksmithing people is world-renowned for the richness of their cosmology and their emblematic sculptures. If daily communication takes place via various Dogon dialects, a sacred language, sigi so, remains the privilege of the mask society. Finally, the Dogons maintain a unique social bond with the Bozos: the joking relationship, a tradition that blends humorous verbal jousting and a duty of solidarity.