Figure debout ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3052788

Description

wood, heavily encrusted patina in some areas, base

For a work by the same workshop see AHDRC 0082060.

According to Ladislas Segy, this sculpture is a typical example of the figural woodcarving of the Dogon. The figure stands upright with slightly bent knees; the long arms extend at right angles and end in angular, downward-turned hands. Below the bent knees, the figure merges into a carved base, leaving the feet unmodelled.

Publications

Segy, Ladislas, African sculpture speaks, New York 1969, p. 153, ill. p. 154, 119; Segy, Ladislas, African sculpture speaks, New York 1975, p. 153, p. 154, fig. 119