Standing female figure

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Description

wood, brown patina, slightly dam., insect caused missing parts (face, left arm, right leg), old repair (breakage: coiffure backside fixed by aglet), base.
For a comparable figure see Harrie Heinemans Collection (ill. 34).
The present figure belongs to the rare Dogon style known as “tomo-ka”. Originating from the plain of the Seno River where the Dogon mixed with the Bamana and possibly Mossi populations

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Comparing literature

Africa Museum (ed.), The pleasure of collecting African art, The Harrie Heinmans Collection, Berg en Dal 1986, p. 25, ill. 34

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