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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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