Dogon Bronze Equestrian Figure

Pure silhouette: a flat black rider, a pipe-like arm, and a horse with a tail like a question.

This Dogon equestrian figure in bronze is Dogon, from Mali, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. Dogon metalworkers have long cast small bronze figures using the lost-wax method, in which a wax model is replaced by molten metal. Matte black cast figure with an elongated torso sits sidelong on a tall horse, one arm raised toward its head. The tail sweeps low in a curl, the legs are thick columns, and the surface is rough and sooty. It is 0.25 inches wide, 3.25 deep and 3.75 high.

Not much detail, but all of it confident.