Altar · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3036986
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Provenance
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden (member of the Cobra-Group)Size
H: 14,5 cm/ 27 cm
H: 5.7 inch/ 10.6 inch
Description
wood, encrusted greyish brown sacrificial patina, cylindrical corpus, carved with fourteen stylized figures running all around, disc-shaped top stud with four iron hooks, arranged around a central aglet with scrolled endings, slightly dam., cracks;
presumably coming from a shrine.