Les ogo banya des Dogon

Ogo banya are lidded ornate containers made from wood (especially Khaya senegalensis). There are only few items, about fifty in the world. Despite the low number of reported ogo banya, they have always been considered as an iconic work of art from the Dogon and widely admired for their beauty. In 19...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b322754086c1408fa531f58111a58b6c2021-12-02T10:48:08ZLes ogo banya des Dogon2431-204510.4000/aaa.235https://doaj.org/article/b322754086c1408fa531f58111a58b6c2014-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/aaa/235https://doaj.org/toc/2431-2045Ogo banya are lidded ornate containers made from wood (especially Khaya senegalensis). There are only few items, about fifty in the world. Despite the low number of reported ogo banya, they have always been considered as an iconic work of art from the Dogon and widely admired for their beauty. In 1905, lieutenant Louis Desplagnes did some investigations into the French Sudan and characterized them as ‘Art’. Their function is not well known because no visual document shows those items in usual context. Ogo banya are studied through their find contexts, their iconography and their physical attributes in order to find out the most likely use among the assumptions made by Western authors.Mathilde BurattiOpenEditionarticleDogonlidded vesseliconographyfunctionArchaeologyCC1-960History of the artsNX440-632ENFRAfrique Archéologie Arts, Vol 10, Pp 61-75 (2014)
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language EN
FR
topic Dogon
lidded vessel
iconography
function
Archaeology
CC1-960
History of the arts
NX440-632
spellingShingle Dogon
lidded vessel
iconography
function
Archaeology
CC1-960
History of the arts
NX440-632
Mathilde Buratti
Les ogo banya des Dogon
description Ogo banya are lidded ornate containers made from wood (especially Khaya senegalensis). There are only few items, about fifty in the world. Despite the low number of reported ogo banya, they have always been considered as an iconic work of art from the Dogon and widely admired for their beauty. In 1905, lieutenant Louis Desplagnes did some investigations into the French Sudan and characterized them as ‘Art’. Their function is not well known because no visual document shows those items in usual context. Ogo banya are studied through their find contexts, their iconography and their physical attributes in order to find out the most likely use among the assumptions made by Western authors.
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