Ritual iron stick

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Description

corroded iron, sitting “nommo” on raised staff, the staff ends in two hooked scrolls to which small bells are attached, on base;
as the first human being created by “amma”, “nommo” represents the central figure in Dogon cosmology, ritual and art.

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Comparing literature

Laude, Jean, African Art of the Dogon, New York 1973, ill. 9

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