Dogon Standing Female Figure with Lobed Hair Style

Heavy-lidded figure with horn-like prongs, standing on a round dish of a base.

This standing female figure with lobed hair style is Dogon, from Mali, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is forged metal. Elaborate hairstyles are a recurring feature of African figural art, where coiffure can reflect age, status or beauty ideals within a community. Stout, upright figure with two upswept prongs on its head and a bulging, ridged body. The arms are slender and pressed to the sides. It rises from a domed circular foot, and the surface is dark grey with worn highlights. It is 1 inches wide, 1 deep and 4 high.

Plump, hornlike and plainly pleased with the arrangement.