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The Dogon country has many vestiges of ancient habitat from successive periods of occupation. From the ancient Toloy and Tellem, to the Dogon. [6]There is the rocky channel located near Sangha where the remains of the Toloy were found, such as granaries, skeletons, pottery and plants, with a carbon-14 dating of 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
The Tellem (meaning: "those who were before us" or "We found them" in the Dogon language [1] [2]) were the people who inhabited the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali between the 11th and 16th centuries CE. [3] [4] The Dogon people migrated to the escarpment region around the 14th century. In the rock cells of this red cliff, clay constructions ...
Dogon art consists primarily of sculptures. Dogon art revolves around religious values, ideals, and freedoms (Laude, 19). Dogon sculptures are not made to be seen publicly, and are commonly hidden from the public eye within the houses of families, sanctuaries, or kept with the Hogon (Laude, 20). The importance of secrecy is due to the symbolic ...
The Bandiagara Escarpment (Arabic: منحدرات باندياغارا الصخرية, French: falaise de Bandiagara) is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali.It rises about 500 m (1,600 ft) above the lower sandy flats to the south, and has a length of approximately 150 km (90 mi).
Toloy dwellings, now abandoned, in the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali.. Toloy is the name given to the first occupants [1] of the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali.Since the 15th century, this area has been known as Dogon country.
The hogon is central to a wide range of fertility and marriage rituals, which are closely related to Dogon origin myths. [5] The hogon may conduct rituals in the Sanctuaire de Binou, a special building the door of which is blocked with rocks. [6]
As a consequence, the ancestor of Dogon is likely to have diverged very early, although the present-day languages probably reflect an origin some 3–4000 years ago. Dogon languages are territorially coherent, suggesting that, despite local migration histories, the Dogon have been in this area of Mali from their origin.
An art dealer in Sangha, Mali, professes to be the grandson of Ogotemmeli, known from Griaule's publications, 1990. Ogotemmeli (also: Ogotemmêli [2] or Ogotommeli, died 1962 [1]) was the Dogon elder and hogon who narrated the cosmogony, cosmology and symbols of the Dogon people to French anthropologist Marcel Griaule during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, that went on to be documented and ...