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Figure féminine à genoux, Mali, Dogon, Taille: H: 29,5 cm, ID: 3043718
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Figure féminine à genoux ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3043718

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Provenance
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland

Description

wood, nearly entirely coated with thick encrusted sacrificial patina, dam., missing parts (bowl, legs), fine cracks, base.
The bowl as a symbol for the traditional role of women, the task of which is to provide their men with food. Presumably carved on behalf of a man/widower who asked his ancestors for sending him a traditional woman.

Littérature comparée

Museé Daper (ed.), Dogon, Paris 1994, p. 122

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