Large Kanaga Dogon Mali Mask With Its Headdress

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Beautiful and large kanaga Dogon Mali mask, with cubist features, it is one of the most important masks among the Dogons.
There are many interpretations of its special shape, personally I agree with the one that it would represent a gerris, these insects with broad and thin legs which walk on the water, "The Kanaga is also a water insect which moored with its legs the ark descended from the sky and containing the first plants, the first animals, and the ancestors of humanity." extract from the BNF on the kanaga of the Musée de l'Homme.
This model with its bright colors must also have been used in exhibition dances for tourists, probably in the 1960s, we sometimes see similar ones in photos from the period. He still has his large headdress made of braided multicolored ropes.
Total height with cap 1.50m, wear, native glueing on the central shaft.
Former Belgian Serge Sheer collection