Seated female figure · Mali, Dogon, Area of Senou · ID: 3034570
Description
wood, shiny brown patina, sacrificial traces, sitting on a small human figure, slender head, rep. (breakage right leg), dam., missing parts (arms, feet), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, wooden socle;
figures like the present belong to female societies and were used for the education of young girls. They were displayed on funerals and presumably on certain fertility and rain-making rituals as well. According to H. Leloup they were called “so-ma-so” (“listen to me”), a sentence effective for education and for prayers for fertility as well.
L’objet Seated female figure avec l’ID d’objet 3034570 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 72nd tribal art auction dans 9 mars 2013 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 266 a atteint un prix de vente de 3 800 €.
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Littérature comparée
Bedaux, Jean Baptist, Art of the Dogon, Brüssel 2012, ill. 54 Laude, Jean, African Art of the Dogon, New York 1973, ill. 33