Vintage Bearded Dogon Male with Child Statue - Mali
$998.00
Statues of this genre are used ritually by the Dogon people of Mali. Typically it would be the focus of what they call a "sacrifice" in which offerings of various substances - like the blood of a chicken that was killed for this purpose - would be made in honor of a spirit which this figure represents.
This figure measures:
34 x 9 x 8" (86 x 23 x 20 cm).