{"id":35012,"date":"2026-11-03T08:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/?page_id=35012"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:49","slug":"dogon-masks-kanaga-satimbe-sirige","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/dogon-masks-kanaga-satimbe-sirige\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogon masks: Kanaga, Satimbe and Sirige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kanaga records MFG-2, MFG-3 and MFG-4 allow one catalogue designation to be explored through different photographs. Satimbe and Sirige extend the comparison. These objects come from records attributed to the Dogon in the family catalogue; this guide neither replaces their names nor establishes a new classification.<\/p>\n<p>Full photographs and detail views are best read together. Arrimadas\u2019s texts connect particular forms with narratives and uses. Keeping document, reference and image alongside one another makes it possible to distinguish an individual catalogue account from the broader cultural context.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Documented context<\/h2>\n<p>The Smithsonian\u2019s bibliographic record of Germaine Dieterlen\u2019s study connects Dogon masks with dama, a ceremony marking the end of mourning. It highlights performance, narratives and rhythms as vehicles of meaning alongside the carved object.<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/object\/siris_sil_542109\" rel=\"noopener\">Smithsonian Libraries \u00b7 Masks and mythology among the Dogon<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Reading the catalogue<\/h2>\n<p class=\"document-attribution\">Original historical document in Spanish<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"es\">\n<p>La m\u00e1scara llamada Kanaga tiene su rostro y su frente tallados en cortavientos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/coleccion\/kanaga-mask-mfg-2\/\">Jes\u00fas Arrimadas Saavedra \u00b7 original catalogue \u00b7 MFG-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">This quotation retains the archive\u2019s wording. Editorial context and comparative sources do not certify the objects\u2019 attribution, age or provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanaga records MFG-2, MFG-3 and MFG-4 allow one catalogue designation to be explored through different photographs. Satimbe and Sirige extend the comparison. These objects come from records attributed to the Dogon in the family catalogue; this guide neither replaces their names nor establishes a new classification. Full photographs and detail views are best read together. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35012","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35042,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35012\/revisions\/35042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}