The Dogon are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, and in Burkina Faso. The population …

In this paper, I discuss similarities among the women of four cultures—Kemet, Dogon, Mayan, and Tsalagi. This discussion provides an historical and cultural foundation to the study of the …

Women do not enter male granaries and nor do men enter female ones. Dogon country has long been one of the most popular destinations in West Africa for tourists and travelers.

Feb 28, 2023 · Women grinding pearl millet, women carrying vessels on their heads, donkeys carrying cups, musicians, dogs, quadruped-shaped troughs or benches, bending figures from …

This female figure is depicted engaged in an essential daily activity, using a mortar and pestle to pound the millet that is a staple of the Dogon diet. The figure has a powerful, muscular …

Women do most of the work: every morning, they take millet stored in barns with thatch roofs and spend their days grinding grains with long poles. Women also fetch water from deep wells and …

Mar 18, 2015 · Dogon people have several buildings for different purposes outside of a family home. Male and female Dogons have their own granary to store things that the opposite …

The woman belongs to the ginna of her husband and the child to his father’s ginna. Dogon society is made of many social groups, opposed but complementary: initiated and non-initiated, men …

Oct 11, 2023 · Contrary to the Dogon myth’s portrayal of Earth, women in the Iroquois myth are described as powerful and self-sufficient beings. For example, when the sorcerer deliberately …

Dogon masks surmounted by female figures are called satimbe, commemorating a mythological woman who first discovered and wore a mask. According to myth, her husband stole this …