Eleven-Headed Female Figure

Eleven-Headed Female Figure Mali: Dogon or Sanga Date Unknown   This female figure expresses in her form both the mythical and historical origins of the Dogon people of the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali. her "head" is composed of elements that refer to Dogon creatio myth, and the eleven spirits that are arranged in a circle are depicted in such a way as to recall the Tellem, a historical group who "owned" the land that the Dogons conquered and inhabited.     See All of Book One