Dogon (Dogo, Habbé, Kado, Kibisi, Tombo), Mali & Burkina Faso

Equestrian Figure.  The Dogon (some 250,000) live 180 miles south of the city of Timbuktu, on the cliffs of Bandiagara, south of the great bend of the Niger River. Living in a beautiful, bare and austere landscape, the Dogon are among African cultures who have remained closest to their ancestral traditions. At first hunters, now on their small fields they cultivate their staple diet, millet, sometimes sorghum, wheat and breed some domestic animals. The horse introduced in Africa during the second millennium BC was a creature of great prestige, a mark of particular luxury. It indicated the preeminence of an individual – king, warrior, founding ancestor. This figure represents the ancestor.

Material: African Bronze

Size:   4”x5½”x3/4”

Price:  $140+$10 (S&H)    Sold  --  E. W.        [#G7D4B739]