Mask (Omono or Tana Wurum Bogoro)

early 1900s Overall: 91.5 cm (36 in.) Source image
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Dogon masks can be interpreted on two fundamentally different levels: “front speech” (giri so) reflects an early stage of knowledge and consists of a tale that is intended to arouse curiosity; and “speech of the world” (aduno so) refers to Dogon cosmogony, reserved for highly...

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