N'DULERI

Details

A FINE DOGON MATERNITY FIGURE
N'duleri
Standing with the child against her abdomen, the right hand holding its legs and the left supporting its back, the coiffure as ridged panels to each side of the head, cross-hatched panels to the breasts, on circular base, weathered surface
93cm. high

Provenance

Hélène Leloup, Paris

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Lot Essay

Hélène Leloup (Dogon Statuary, Strasbourg, 1994) discusses the style of these carvings which she categorises as N'duleri, found in the centre of the Bandiagara Plateau pp.165-166 and illustrates a similar maternity from the Dapper Museum Pl.118

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