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Stories of the artists and peoples behind the work: the sculptors, tribes, and traditions that have shaped our collection.
May 5, 2020Tribe ProfileWest Africa
The Senufo Tribe
The Senufo are an agricultural people of the savannah zone of northern Côte d'Ivoire, southern Mali, and western Burkina Faso. Their culture is organised around the Poro, a male initiation...
August 8, 2016Tribe ProfileWest Africa
The Dogon Tribe
The Dogon are an ancient people of the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, a 500-kilometre sandstone cliff rising dramatically above the plains of the Niger bend. They settled here, in cliff-face...