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Seated man and woman

Seated man and woman





Artist : Anonymous

Date : between the XVIth and the XIXth century

Material : Wood
Acquisition : Gift of Lester Wunderman (1977)
Dogon
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Africa
Left
Ground Floor - Section 1
Item 25 on 42
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Sculpture

Vitrine : 6 (Ref. 0110)

Area related
Mali

Description   

This couple exemplifies some of the basic functions of men and women in Dogon society. The complementary and independence of their roles is suggested by the identical columnar forms that define the two figures and by the horizontal elements that connect them.
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