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Artist:
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Artist Unknown
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Title:
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Male figure
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Date:
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17th-18th century
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Medium:
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Wood
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Dimensions:
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19 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (50.17 x 13.34 x 12.07 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Heinrich C. Schweizer in honor of William C. Siegmann
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Location:
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Gallery 254
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This musician has been playing his xylophone for more than 250 years. Among the oldest woodcarvings in these galleries, it was created by the Dogon people from Mali, who have a very old art tradition. Its dry surface and lack of a thick crust of offerings suggest that it was not used as an altarpiece, as many Dogon figures are. Instead, it was probably made as a reference to migrations long ago, when the ancestors of the Dogon left the Mali Empire around the 14th century.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Artist Unknown
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Inscription
on back, on edge of base, in white: [17666 / 100031]
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Classification:
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Sculpture
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Physical Description:
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standing male figure playing a small xylophone-like instrument held at his stomach; man's hair styled in rows of braids; man wears a necklace or collar; small facial features
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Creation Place:
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Africa, Mali, Sahel region, ,
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Accession #:
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2011.72
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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