Click to open image viewer. Traditionally Dogon masks are controlled by the Awa society, a group of predominantly male initiates. The society's age-grouped membership functions outside the standard ...

The procession of Dogon masks that come out to perform during dama ceremonies, or the end of mourning, represent various aspects of Dogon cosmology, evoking personalities or events from mythology; ...

People cannot go to Mali's Dogon region to witness its spectacular ancient culture, so the Dogons brought their dancing, wrestling and architecture to the Sahel nation's capital. The Barron's news ...

PARIS, April 8 (Reuters Life!) - With its full beard and elongated breasts, worn smooth by the hands of thousands of women praying for fertility, an androgynous wooden statue is the centrepiece of a ...