Country: Mali Material: Wood Measures: 24x32 cm ____ This stool is hand carved by the Dogon people in Mali. The Dogon live in Mali, in the southwestern part of the Niger Circuit. It is a mountainous region called “Bandiagara Cliffs”, a long sandstone chain located in Mali in the Mopti region, around which the Dogon Country extends. Nowadays, stools are used in everyday life. They formerly represented the symbols of authority of the so-called “Hogons” priests (the primitive ancestors of the Dogon cosmogony, a mythical theory about the formation of the Universe). The seat is supported by four twin figures who embody the ancestors of the Dogon people: the Nommo.