Antique DOGON STOOL 19th/20th c Mali Africa Carved Wooden Personage Seat Stand

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Antique DOGON STOOL 19th/20th c Mali Africa Carved Wooden Personage Seat Stand:
$99.50

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DogonCarved WoodenStool With Nude Female FiguresItem: An antique African carved wood stool, by theDogon people,Mali.
Description: Well carved stool featuring the top disc being held up by four pairs of nude female figures (known ascaryatids in Greek art - \"a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head\").
Date: Late 19th / early to mid 20th century.
Size: Measures about 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches in diameter.
Condition: With one or two chipped areas, else very good overall condition with nice patina.
Notes: The Dogon people of Mali describe the cosmos as two disks forming the sky and earth connected by a tree. The supporting figures represent the founding ancestors in their descent from sky to earth. The zigzag patterns suggest the path of their descent, a reference to Lebe, the first human and priest who was transformed into a serpent after his death. The disk on top serves as an alter surface for Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, in the Mopti region. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000. They speak the Dogon languages, which are considered to constitute an independent branch of the Niger–Congo language family.
The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture. The past century has seen significant changes in the social organisation, material culture and beliefs of the Dogon, partly because Dogon country is one of Mali\'s major tourist attractions.
Dogon art is primarily sculpture. Dogon art revolves around religious values, ideals, and freedoms. Dogon sculptures are not made to be seen publicly, and are commonly hidden from the public eye within the houses of families, sanctuaries, or kept with the Hogon. The importance of secrecy is due to the symbolic meaning behind the pieces and the process by which they are made.
Themes found throughout Dogon sculpture consist of figures with raised arms, superimposed bearded figures, horsemen, stools with caryatids, women with children, figures covering their faces, women grinding pearl millet, women bearing vessels on their heads, donkeys bearing cups, musicians, dogs, quadruped-shaped troughs or benches, figures bending from the waist, mirror-images, aproned figures, and standing figures

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