Equestrian figure · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3035066
Description
wood, matt, slightly encrusted patina, both hands pierced, metal tags eyes, rep. (breakage left arm), small missing parts (forehead crest), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, socle;
Dogon equestrian figures are most often identified as images of the “hogon”, since in Dogon society horses are a luxury generally reserved for rich and powerful people. Horses occur in Dogon beliefs about the creation of the world.
The object Equestrian figure with the object ID 3035066 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 136.
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Comparing literature
Laude, Jean, Les Arts de l‘Afrique Noire, Paris, 1966, p. 197, fig. 99; Parrinder, Geoffrey, African Mythology, London 1967, p. 78