Dogon mask - Mali (No reserve price)

Very beautiful Dogon mask, with an indoor patina of age. The rectangular face of the hare mask is pierced by two eyes and topped by two large ears, whose hollows are usually oriented forward. According to the Sanga myth, the dog of a hunter from the Yougo region, having seen a hare, pursued it and seized it. After tying it to a rope, he carved a wooden mask in the likeness of the beast, which he then killed and ate. A second version says that a hunter who saw a hare fleeing from bush to bush saw the hare look at him, ears erect, and then depart with its ears laid back. The hunter carved a mask in the beast’s image and danced, imitating its expression.

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