Zemanek-Münster

Post with a depiction of "toguna"

Mali, Dogon
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Provenance
Dutch Collection
Size
H: 84 cm
H: 33.1 inch

Description

wood, greyish brown patina, round post with columnar neck, supporting a stool-like object: disc-shaped base with 9 angular struts, surmounted by a mushroom-like top, fissured surface because of weathering, the post with extrem traces of insect caused damage, missing parts (one strut);
the exhibition catalogue “Dogon”, Musée Branly, 2011, identified a comparable piece as “post with toguna depiction”.


Comparing literature

Leloup, Helene, Dogon, Paris 2011, p. 352, ill. 16 Bedaux, Jean Baptist, Art of the Dogon, Brüssel 2012, ill. 532

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