yo domolo Wood, metal, ritual patination length 26in (66cm) Provenance Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam Cornelis Pieter Meulendijk Collection, Rotterdam Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp/Brussels Pace Primitive Art, New York (no. 54-3923) James Stephenson African Art, New York Franklin Family Collection, Portland, Oregon Published Wassing, René S., African Art - Its Background and Traditions, Abrams, New York, 1968, pl. 78 Kate Ezra notes, "Worn over the shoulder or held in the hand, curved staff such as this are emblems of the society of yona, or "ritual thieves." (Art of the Dogon - Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, p. 94) Of stylized horse-like form with openwork carving and two figures seated at the top as stylized ears; rich, blackened patina with encrusted ritual patination.