Post with a depiction of "toguna" ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3033590

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