Statuette of a hermaphrodite, 16th/ 17th century

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Description

wood, base

Geochemist analysis has confirmed that before the arrival of the Dogon people to the Bandiagara Cliff in two successive waves in the 13th and the 15th century, a Pre-Dogon population with a different and distinct genetic profile had been inhabiting this area since the 11th century and had disappeared in the 16th century.

Sculptures such as present figure were most likely produced in the intermediary phase, when the Pre-Dogon population—the Tellem—lived side-by-side with the Dogon, sharing and influencing each other’s cultural practices

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Publications

Savary, Claude, Arts Africains dans les Collections Privées Neuchateloises, Neuchatel 1985, p. 15, ill. 1

AHDRC: 0081566

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Exhibition

Neuchâtel, Switzerland: "Arts Africains dans les Collections Privées Neuchâteloises", Fondation Le Grand-Cachot-De-Vent, 8 June-11 August, 1985

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