Dogon Bronze Equestrian Figure

Eight spindly legs, or perhaps just four caught in motion, hold up this determined horseman.

This Dogon equestrian figure in bronze is Dogon, from Mali, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. The Dogon people live in central Mali, near the Bandiagara escarpment, and are widely known for their sculpture, masks and complex cosmology. Slim rider with a decorated, ridged head hunches over a horse whose legs splay in thin parallel rods. A circular ornament marks the horse's head, and the dark brown surface is smooth with lighter wear at the edges. It is 3 inches wide, 0.5 deep and 3 high.

Wobbly gait, but an unshakable seat in the saddle.