Equestrian figure ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3035066

Description

wood, matt, slightly encrusted patina, both hands pierced, metal tags eyes, rep. (breakage left arm), small missing parts (forehead crest), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, socle;
Dogon equestrian figures are most often identified as images of the “hogon”, since in Dogon society horses are a luxury generally reserved for rich and powerful people. Horses occur in Dogon beliefs about the creation of the world.

Littérature comparée

Laude, Jean, Les Arts de l‘Afrique Noire, Paris, 1966, p. 197, fig. 99; Parrinder, Geoffrey, African Mythology, London 1967, p. 78