Maschera portafoglio Dogon I Dogon del Mali (Africa occidentale) realizzano non solo maschere di grandi dimensioni, ma anche una grandissima varietà di maschere e sculture, tra cui alcune più piccole o portatili, inserite in un repertorio di oltre 70-80 tipi diversi. Traditionally Dogon masks are controlled by the Awa society, a group of predominantly male initiates The society’s age-grouped membership functions outside the standard Dogon organizing factors of lineage and village. It conducts the public rites that insure the transition of the dead into the spirit world. A large number of masks are included both for the funerary rites and for the dama, the celebration at the end of mourning. Dogon masks have been identified, they can be grouped into five categories according to medium: whether fiber or wood, subject: whether animal, human or abstract and character: whether predatory or non-predatory. Based on the French ethnographer Marcel Griaule’s 1938 publication of photographs of a mask from Ireli, this wood mask is a predatory human, specifically a hunter.