CEREMONIAL HELMET animated by a BIRD

Dogon culture, Mali

First half of the 20th century

Copper alloy

H.: 17; Diam. : 17cm

Small frustoconical ceremonial helmet surmounted by an avian figure with wings spread in half-discs incised with concentric circles. The edge is decorated with a frieze of applied semi-circles.

The bird thus represented could refer to the messengers of the Hogons: the Orotongou.

Ref. : 4696

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