Statuette - Dogon Culture, Mali - First Half Of The 20th Century

Statuette with a body entirely incised with horizontal striations, seated on a domed circular base, her hands resting on her shins, her wrists and arms adorned with bracelets, her conical chest drooping. She is wearing a necklace with a pendant around her neck. 
She could be a hermaphrodite representation of the cosmology of the Dogon culture, where Amma, the creator god, united with the female earth to create the primordial ancestor, the progenitor of humanity: the Nommo.  
Dogon culture, Mali 

First half of the 20th century 
Copper alloy  
H. 7.6; L 4.1 cm

N°403

Reference : 4391