DOGON MASK, Mali
Wood with brown patina, pigments, vegetable fibers.
H. 46,5 cm
Architectural face tinted with black, topped by a high, blunt headdress.
More than seventy types of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic masks made of wood or plant materials are known from the Dogons. Made by the members of the awa society, they are exhibited on the occasion of the homage paid to the dead (dama). (In African masks - the other face of the Barbier-Mueller collection, p. 50)
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