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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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Ever since the studies in the 1930s of Marcel Griaule and his team, Dogon people have gained worldwide attention for their spectacular masking traditions.
Masques Dogons in a changing world by Richards, Polly / African Arts
Then the starkly penetrating, unflinching eyes of the Dogon people stare at us from razor-sharp, black-and-white prints, as they must have gazed at Agnes Pataux, the trusted white storyteller with the camera.
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The title of the series, Song of the Andoumboulou, refers to a traditional funeral song of the Dogon people of West Africa that invokes what in their complex cosmology is an earlier, flawed form of human being.
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