Dogon Standing Male Figure, Based

Slender, hunched figure with one hand to its chin, deep in thought.

This standing male figure on a base is Dogon, from Mali, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze. Bronze combines copper with a smaller amount of tin, producing a metal that casts well and takes fine detail from a wax model. Narrow figure with a heavy brow, ringed neck and one arm raised to the chin. A fringed or textured kilt runs below the waist, and the legs are straight with flat feet. The surface is dark and mottled, on a black base. It is 1.5 inches wide, 1.5 deep and 3.5 high.

Thinking hard, hand to chin, and not about to say.