African bronze pot to collect medicinal preparations designed according to the advice of the ancients initiated into the science of trees or "jiridon", surmounted by an ancestor figure. The walls are decorated with allegorical decorative motifs, such as friezes of wavelets and subjects relating to mythology. Heterogeneous brown/black patina, chips. The Dogon are a people renowned for their cosmogony, their esotericism, their myths and legends. Their population is estimated at around 300,000 souls living in the southwest of the Niger bend in the Mopti region of Mali (Bandiagara, Koro, Banka), near Douentza and part of northern Burkina (northwest of Ouahigouya). The Dogon blacksmith artisans, forming an endogamous caste called irim, today produce weapons, tools, and also work wood. "Masters of fire", they are also supposed to heal burns (Huib Blom).
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