Dogon Forged Iron Figure, Based

Tall, wiry figure with hands thrown skyward and legs like pencils.

This forged iron figure on a base is Dogon, from Mali, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. Forged iron is shaped by heating the metal and hammering it, so figures made this way usually show simplified forms and the textured surface left by the smith. Very narrow standing figure with a long torso crossed with fine hatched lines, arms raised overhead ending in flat, paddle-like hands. Rusty orange surface with pitted, flaking texture. Mounted on a small black base. It is 2 inches wide, 1 deep and 9 high.

Thin as a rumor and twice as animated.