Beautiful in size, quality of carving and patina, this sculpture of female figure not particularly ancient, but representative of the classic style of the art of the Dogon, amazes for the many and varied types of scarifications reported on it. We find them on the face, neck, breast, arms, belly and finally also on the buttocks. In short, to know how to read, a real genealogical map.
To report, the detachment of the hands from the body originally joined, due to the drying of the wood.
Last curiosity: to level and stabilize the sculpture, a previous owner of the work has often made the base with slices of cork, as was done once, when plastic was less widespread.