GothamGallery Fine African Art - Mali Dogon Tribal Animal Mask

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GothamGallery Fine African Art - Mali Dogon Tribal Animal Mask:
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Fine Old African Mali Dogon Animal Mask

Inches:Height: 14 Inches
Centimeters: Height: 35.5 Centimeters
Measurement Mask Only
Material:Wood
Estimated Age:Early 20th stylized mask form zoomorphic attribute weathered aged surface

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CONDITION
Wood deterioration, lost of pigment, worn areas, age cracks, chips, overall condition fair. Thank you and please view my other items.BACKGROUND
Seventy-eight different types of mask have been identified by the French scholar Marcel Griaule. All of them have large geometric eyes and stylized features. Dogon masks evoke the form of animals associated with their mythology, yet their significance is only understood by the highest ranking cult members whose role is to explain the meaning of each mask to a captivated audience. In the West, the most famous of these masks is certainly the Kanaga mask. Its stylized face is set beneath two pairs of geometric arms directed towards the sky and the earth. The crocodile mask, carved with a long jaw, is thought to protect the Dogon from the Nyagma or vital fluids which emanate from a slain crocodile. Bird masks, known as Dyodyomini, evoke the captured bird in Dogon mythology.

Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.

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