dogon wooden/iron NOMMO statue kneeling, Mali, Africa
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Click Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE! Dogon wooden/iron statue of a kneeling NOMMO with breasts and also a beard or lip plug and collar, resting on the knees with arms in the lap, size 41 centimeters high and a weight of 756 gram. Fine condition with an aged crusteous surface. Around 1490 AD, fleeing invaders and/or drought, the Dogon migrated to the Bandiagara cliffs of central Mali. Carbon-14 dating techniques used on excavated remains found in the cliffs indicate that t were inhabitants in the region before the arrival of the Dogon. They were the Toloy culture of the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC, and the Tellem culture of the 11th to 15th centuries AD. The religious beliefs of the Dogon are enormously complex and knowledge of them varies greatly within Dogon society. Dogon religion is defined primarily through the worship of the ancestors and the spirits whom they encountered as they slowly migrated from their obscure ancestral homelands to the Bandiagara cliffs. They were called the 'Nommo'. T are three principal cults among the Dogon; the Awa, Lebe and Binu. The Awa is a cult of the dead, whose purpose is to reorder the spiritual forces disturbed by the death of Nommo, a mythological ancestor of great importance to the Dogon. The cult of Lebe, the Earth God, is primarily concerned with the agricultural cycle
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