Dogon wooden medicine box

Beautiful medicine box traditionally used to store medicinal preparations developed on the advice of ancient initiates. An object remarkable for its walls sculpted with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic motifs. The Dogon medicine box can also be recognized by its original base, made up of 2 legs at the front and 1 leg at the back. Most are surmounted by one or more ancestor figures. Beautiful decorative and useful ethnic object. Object of mali, end of the 20th century.

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