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Dogon

Member of a people of eastern Mali and northwestern Burkina Faso. They number approximately 250,000 and their language belongs to the Voltaic (Gur) branch of the Niger-Congo family.

The Dogon lack centralized political authority and are divided into districts under a hogon, a spiritual leader. They make sculpture, especially wooden masks of ancestors.



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The piece serves as a reminder of the centrality of Dogon culture to French understandings of African mythologies and of the weight of Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris's work in the Dakar Djibouti mission of the early 1930s.
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