Equestrian figure

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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.

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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

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