Sitting figure ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3035742

Description

wood, slightly shiny black patina, crested coiffure with neck-lobe merging into an elongated arrow-shaped nose, big c-shaped ears, incised scarifications, sticky sacrificial patina, slightly dam., abrasion of paint;
because of the accentuation of the female sex characteristics and the navel the figure was surely used in connection with fertility and was placed on a shrine. At sacrificial rites the figures were sprinkled with black liquid of burned plants.