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Dogon Pharmacy is a traditional object used by the Dogon people, who live in the Bandiagara region in Mali. This one-of-a-kind column of rare beauty was used in antiquity by the Dogon to store traditional remedies and medicinal herbs used in traditional Dogon culture. Magnificently worked from a single piece of wood, carved from a tree trunk.

Farmacia Dogon, è un oggetto tradizionale utilizzato dal popolo Dogon, che vive nella regione di Bandiagara in Mali. Questa colonna unica nel suo genere di rara bellezza era usato in antichita' dal popolo Dogon per conservare rimedi tradizionali e erbe medicinali utilizzate nella tradizionale Dogon. Lavorato magnificamente in un unico pezzo di legno, ricavato da un tronco d'albero. 

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FARMACIA DOGON - Sculpture - Dogon - Mali

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Farmacia Dogon, a carved single-piece wooden column in brown, dating to the antique Dogon culture from Mali, with dimensions 24 cm by 24 cm by 118 cm and weighing 6 kg, in excellent condition and unsigned.

FARMACIA DOGON - Sculpture - Dogon - Mali

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Farmacia Dogon, a carved single-piece wooden column in brown, dating to the antique Dogon culture from Mali, with dimensions 24 cm by 24 cm by 118 cm and weighing 6 kg, in excellent condition and unsigned.

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