Dogon Seated Male Ancestor Figure with Stone Offering

Tall, lacy, rust-red figure whose torso is mostly open air.

This seated male ancestor figure with a stone offering is Dogon, from Mali, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze. Dogon sculpture often shows figures in quiet, upright postures with simplified limbs, a restrained style that has drawn wide attention to the art of the Bandiagara region. Long, slender figure with a tiny, pointed head and a ribcage-like openwork body of curved bars with braided detail down the center. Short legs fold at the base. The reddish-brown surface is rough and matte. It is 1 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 4.75 high.

More window than wall, and tidy about it.