Figure of a Standing Female
late 19th or early 20th century
Dogon
Arts of Africa
This female figure illustrates the ability of Dogon sculptors to translate the human form into geometric volumes. In profile, the figure's neckline, breasts, belly, buttocks, and legs are a series of diagonal lines.
- Maker/Artist
- Dogon
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- Wood
- Medium
- wood
- Locations
- Place made: Mopti Region, Mali
- Dimensions
- 22in. (55.9cm)
- Departments
- Arts of Africa
- Accession Number
- 69.39.1
- Credit Line
- Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund and Gift of Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos, by exchange
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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