A horse-shaped decorated wooden vessel with engraved figures on both sides. The artifact maintains its original cover. Among the Dogon people, this ritual vessel called Aduno Koro (literally Ark of the world) was meant to host the offerings dedicated to Amma "the creator" and to the ancestors during the annual celebration called goru
NOTE- For a similar piece see: “Ritual vessel, horse with figures (Aduno Koro)”, Metropolitan Museum, NY.
Provenance: Parisian collection of the painter Arturo Carmassi (Lucca 1925 - Empoli 2015). This piece had come through the inheritance of the collector and humanist Renèe Druart (Grasse 1888 - 1961) whose daughter Carmassi had married.