Dogon masks
Dogon mask,
Sagana, 40 cm high, condition: some old restoration , crack and hole in the
face.
Provenance : Mon Steyaert collection |
dogon mask from the Mon Steyaert
collection
old dogon mask dogon mask from the Mon
Steyaert collection. Quite interesting is the fact this mask has round eyes,
instead of triangular ones.
Dogon Mask . Satimbe Mask or Kanaga mask
 | provenance: Mon Steyaert |
| probable age: End XVIII- early XIXth century |
| Very old aging signs |
| H: 40 cm cm (without it's stand - included in
the price) |
At the Dogon of Mali, myths where collected by Marcel Griaule that
illustrates the process which leads to the creation of the masks.
this is a genuine old Dogon mask, end XVIIth - early XIXth century .
The abstracted facial form is based on that of a
twenty-foot-long "great mask" that is carried but not worn and that
functions as an ancestral effigy of the first death. All Dogon masks lead the
spirits of the deceased toward the ancestral realm.
There are nearly eighty styles of Dogon masks, and for the most part they all
utilize the use of various geometric shapes in their design, independent of the
various animals they are supposed to represent. Most masks have large geometric
eyes and stylized features and are often painted or colored with various
substances. The Dogon continue an ancient masquerading tradition called "Dama"
which commemorates the origin of death. Dama memorial ceremonies
are held to accompany the dead into the ancestral realm and restore order to the
universe. In these ceremonies there are a large number of performers, often a
few hundred, and it is considered absolutely necessary to the ceremony.
A group of Dogon dancers: Image source: Eliot
Elisofon Photographic Archive
CLICK IMAGES BELOW TO ENLARGE :
The better known Kanaga and Sirige masks
are followed in the dama ceremony by masks that evoke the behavior of some of
the animals that inhabit the regions where the Dogon live and hunt.
They include among others - antelopes, hares, lions, hyenas, cows, birds and
monkeys.
provenance:
 Steyaert,
Mon
Dealer.
Brussels. Formerly gallery Gulden Snee. Started collecting in 1962, and
dealing in 1973. Closed his gallery in 1995, continued privately dealing.
(source Who
is Who in African Art - Guy Van Rijn.)
Click the thumbs to see
larger images of this fine Dogon Mask
price: SOLD
Dogon
Mask Information request of availability
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SEE ALSO:
compare with this very old Dogon mask,
72 cm high
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Documentation
Dogon masks and books resources :
Compare with the Dogon mask from Harrie
Heinemans collection I sold a time ago.
 Dances
of Africa, Art and Ritual of Africa - by Michel Huet
African
Art in American Collections, Survey 1989,Robbins (Warren M.) and
Nooter (Nancy Ingram) Washington/London: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1989:51, #3
Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1987. Lot 34,
illus
Sotheby's-New York, 25 May 1999. Lot 367, color illus.
Artcurial, Paris, 2 July 2003. Lot 11, color illus.
 Conversations
with Ogote... Marcel Griaule, Ge...
"Dogon religion is seen through the eyes of.an
elder of exceptional intellectual attainments... It is good to have this
material now in English.--Anthropological Forum
Dogon
masks by Barbara DeMott
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