Great Dungbe Sitting

Great statue of a senate Dungbe. The Dungbe is the bull whose head bears the cabarians in initiation imitating the gestures of the animal. This great statue carries a cup of offerings in his hands and is intended for the initiation rites of the cabaros, which is the group to which the young Bidjogos of the age of seventeen to twenty-seven years belong, when all physical strength is possessed. Sculpture never seen in any book referring to African art or in any sales gaalería. It belonged to the private collection of the father of the Senegalese antiquarian Mamadou Marema Diop, of the third generation of antiquarians.