Figure "nommo" ·  Mali, Tellem · ID: 3035387

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Description

wood, entirely coated with thick incrustations of sacrificial matters, bearded face with breasts and prominent navel, the slender body in its whole length flanked by thin arms, which are broken on both sides, the figure slightly curved (when looking at it in profile), slightly dam. (breast, beard), cracks (base), missing parts (arms, headcrest), socle

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Littérature comparée

Ezra, Kate, Art of the Dogon, New York 1988, p. 56 ff. Leloup, Hélène, Dogon, Paris 2011, p. 228, ill. 19

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Publications

Historia del Arte Universal ( Ars Magna). Tomo II: El Esplendor del Ritual, El arte en América precolombina, África y Oceanía, 2006, Barcelona : Ed. Planeta, p. 196; David Serra, Rites, Expo. Cat.: "Dances and Parures", Parcour des mondes, 11-16 september 2012, p. 9

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