"At the beginning of time the Dogon women took the stars from the sky to give them to their children. They pierced them with a spindle and turned these tops of fire, to show each other how the world worked". Thus told an Ogon, an old leader to Marcel Griaule, anthropologist who first studied the enigmatic people of the Dogon,
It seems just collect stars this beautiful sculpture Dogon reminiscent of the most ancient Llem.
This Nommo (also known as primordial spirit, Master of Water, the Destroyer and or the Warner) is well sculpted, also in the details of bracelets and abdominal scarifications, classically stylized and with a beautiful black and shiny patina.