Description: dogon images & traditions
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For sale on this site : bilingual book English-French
The photos are in B&W and are printed on high quality paper. The masks and sculptures belong to public and private collections. Some pieces are well known but most have never, or rarely, been published before. The text is based on the many ethnographic studies that have been conducted in Dogon country. It is subdivided into five chapters : Dogon country in ancient times, a geographical and cultural overview of the region, architecture and religion, funerary rites, wellknown and lesser known masks.
author : Huib Blom hardcover, size : 21.59 x 27,94 cm number of pages : 399 2 maps of Dogon country 80 pages of text (English & French) 240 single and double full page photos of which 72 photos of sculptures and masks paper type : wood free half-matt maco paper, grammage : 170 g/m2 photos printed in B&W 4C process binding sewn and flat spine ISBN 978-2-8399-0725-5