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

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