Art dogon
With and, the Dogons drove out the Tellem to occupy their territory. Dogons live on the cliff escarpée of Bandiagara to the Mali. They live agriculture and cultivate the millet, it but and groundnut.
The artistic centers let us dogons are with Bandiagara, Sangha and Ireli. The oldest statues let us dogons are recognizable with their lengthened forms. They represent a character who tightens his arms towards the sky. We cannot interpret with exactitude the significance of this gesture but it could be that of a prayer (so that the gods grant the rain, for example). Stylistiquement, these statues let us dogons resemble those their predecessors Tellem. They are sometimes named of “style tellem”. Blood of the sacrifices, hulled grain of millet and beer are widespread on the statues, which gives to the patina a croûteux aspect. The statues comprise at the same time female elements and masculines because, for Dogons, separation between the two sexes is not absolute. The hermaphrodism shows the vital power of these statues.
The creative god dogon is Amma. There are eight paramount ancestors, Nommo. They have a sinuous body and of which the lower part is serpentiform. The sculptures represent one of the nommo in general.
Apart from these sculptures, the most typical achievements of the dogon are the masks of dance. One of their ritual, the sigui, takes place every sixty years. It is intended for the atonement of fished and present of the anthropomorphic masks or zoomorphes (antelope, hare, buffalo, monkey, bird, hyena, lion) very important cuts some (up to ten meters for the mask - snake). The mask snake is the symbol of the dead ancestor. It is carried out on this occasion. All the community takes part in this ceremony. Initiate must keep it and are regarded as persons in charge of the heart of the ancestor.
We are informed also of shutters or of doors dogon, they closed the attics and are very interesting because they represent the ancestors. The sculptures are very stylized.
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