"Amulet Ring - Dogon Culture, Mali - 19th Century"
AMULET RING with an animated kitten of TWO HORSEMEN leaning on a Janus mount. They each bear, as if following an axis of vertical symmetry, the same treatment and probably refer to the first Nommo.
Dogon culture, Mali, 19th century Copper alloy; H.: 4.5; L.: 4 cm
No. 159 of the exhibition-sale “Bronzes, monumental miniatures”.