On the Provenance of Ten Cultural Goods from the Pays Dogon (Republic of Mali)
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| Meeting Point F |
| German |
| Ethnologisches Museum, 2. OG |
Three researchers from Mali and Germany will present an insight into the ongoing project “On the Provenance of Ten Cultural Goods from the Pays Dogon (Republic of Mali) in the Collection of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin”: How did the project come about? What challenges does it face? What are the initial results?
The provenance research project, funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, is a cooperation between the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and the Musée national du Mali. The project members invite interested exhibition visitors to discuss, based on large-format images, among other aspects, the origin, age, possible former functions, changes of ownership, and appropriation contexts of the cultural belongings studied.
Dr. Bourahima Ouedraogo: Research associate in the project and lecturer in archaeology at the Faculté d’Histoire et de Géographie of the Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion in Bamako. His research focuses on the paleometallurgy of iron in Mali. A further focus is on terracotta statues of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali from archaeological contexts.
Akognon Amougnon Dolo: Provenance researcher in the project and PhD student at the Ecole Doctorale Droit-Economie-Sciences Sociales-Lettres et Arts du Mali as part of the PhD program of the Faculté d’Histoire et de Géographie of the Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion in Bamako. His dissertation focuses on Pre-Dogon and Dogon remains from the burial caves in the Bandiagara Escarpment in the Pays Dogon.
Heidrun Mezger: Research associate in the project and PhD student at the Technische Universität Dresden, Department of Art History / Visual Studies in the Global Context. Her doctoral project reconstructs (post)colonial provenances of cultural belongings from the Pays Dogon in German and French collections.
