dogon wooden/iron NOMMO statue kneeling, Mali, Africa

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dogon wooden/iron NOMMO statue kneeling, Mali, Africa

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Sold Date: 10/19/2008
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

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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 and its chief priest is called a Hogon.

The cult of Binu is a totemic practice and it has complex associations with the Dogon's sacred places used for ancestor worship, spirit communication and agricultural sacrifices. Marcel Griaule and his colleagues came to believe that all the major Dogon sacred sites were related to episodes in the Dogon myth of the creation of the world, in particular to a deity named Nommo. A statue like the one offered would have been placed on a Binu shrine. Binu shrines house spirits of mythic ancestors who lived in the legendary era before the appearance of death among mankind.

The shipping fee for this single item, shipped in an envelope, will be 12 USD for The Netherlands, 19 USD for Europe and 35 USD for the rest of the world. The shipping fee for single or more items combined will be only the actual shipping fee by TNT Post (no extra fees for handling or packing).

The shipping fee with destination The Netherlands of

parcels of 0 âe" 10 kg will be 12 USD

parcels of 10 âe" 30 kg will be 18 USD

The shipping fee with destination Europe of

parcels of 0 âe" 2 kg will be USD 19

parcels of 2 âe" 5 kg will be USD 29

parcels of 5 âe" 10 kg will be USD 39

parcels of 10 âe" 20 kg will be USD 49

parcels of 10 âe" 30 kg will be USD 59

For destination Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Romania the fees for destinations outside the EU are charged by TNT (see t

The shipping fee with destination outside Europe of

parcels of 0 âe" 2 kg will be USD 35