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Headrest
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About this work
In the Bandiagara cliffs, above the villages now occupied by the Dogon people, carved wooden headrests have been found in burial caves. The Dogon, who do not now use headrests, attribute them to the Tellem, former inhabitants of the region from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Rogier Bedaux, who has excavated in the burial caves, asserts that headrests "do not occur in Dogon contexts."
National Museum of African Art’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineHeadrest. 11th-14th century. Tellem artist. National Museum of African Art, Gift of Saul Bellow. CC0.
