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A kneeling Dogon sculpture, Mali, Northern Bandiagara Plateau, with hands resting on the thighs, collected close to Sanga, region of the Falaise, covered with layers of sacrifications, extremly hard and weathered wood.

"Dogon art presents a broad range of object types and styles. Among the human figures alone, some are well over life-size, while others are barely a few inches...of meaning that arise from the particular settings in which the objects are located.

The Dogon place wood figures depicting men and women on many different kinds of altars, most of which are dedicated to ancestors...

The characteristics of this (Bomu-Toro) style are: no fascial scarifications; simple lines, even stark volumes; no realistic traits, everything being geometrically defined; arrow-shapes nose with flaring nostrils; button- or lozenge-shaped eyes; no prognathism but a beard and lip plug; hairstyle in form of a crest for ancestor statues; ornaments such as jewelery, especially sculpted bracelets and earings added on (note that the anklets were exclusvely reserved for the Hogon), contrary to the statues of many other ethnic groups, the mouths are always closed." Hélèn Leloup.

Lit.: Hélèn Leloup, Dogon Statuary, 1995.

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