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Object Details
- Dogon artist
- Description
- Wood animal with rider, overall encrusted surface. Animal has stubby legs, back ones kneeling, pointed upward projecting tail. Rider, smaller than figure, lies foreward with head on animals shoulder.
- Exhibition History
- Thinking with Animals, African Images and Perceptions, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March 24-September 7, 1982
- Published References
- Imperato, Pascal James. 1978. Dogon Cliff Dwellers: The Art of Mali's Mountain People. New York: L. Kahan Gallery, p. 89, no. 93.
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- Credit Line
- Bequest of Eliot Elisofon
- Object number
- 73-7-27
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Figure
- Medium
- Wood, encrustation
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 12.7 x 58.4 x 17.1 cm (5 x 23 x 6 3/4 in.)
- Geography
- Mali
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- National Museum of African Art Collection
- Object Name
- bazou
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_73-7-27
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys722c329f7-779e-4195-b084-7e8a56d42215
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