26 Facts About Dogon people

Dogon people are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture, and their architecture.

Historically, Dogon villages were established in the Bandiagara area a thousand years ago because the people collectively refused to convert to Islam and retreated from areas controlled by Muslims.

Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological studies in the Dogon people region have been especially revealing about the settlement and environmental history, and about social practices and technologies in this area over several thousands of years.

Over time, the Dogon people moved north along the escarpment, arriving in the Sanga region in the 15th century.

Dogon people art revolves around religious values, ideals, and freedoms.

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Dogon people sculptures are not made to be seen publicly, and are commonly hidden from the public eye within the houses of families, sanctuaries, or kept with the Hogon.

Themes found throughout Dogon people sculpture consist of figures with raised arms, superimposed bearded figures, horsemen, stools with caryatids, women with children, figures covering their faces, women grinding pearl millet, women bearing vessels on their heads, donkeys bearing cups, musicians, dogs, quadruped-shaped troughs or benches, figures bending from the waist, mirror-images, aproned figures, and standing figures.

The Dogon people were not the first inhabitants of the cliffs of Bandiagara.

Dogon people religion was centered on this loss of twinness or androgyny.

Marriages are endogamous in that the Dogon people are limited to marry only persons within their clan and within their caste.

Dogon people are strongly oriented toward harmony, which is reflected in many of their rituals.

Dogon people is elected from among the oldest men of the dominant lineage of the village.

Dogon people wears white clothes and nobody is allowed to touch him.

Dogon people has an armband with a sacred pearl that symbolises his function.

The Dogon people believe the sacred snake Lebe comes during the night to clean him and to transfer wisdom.

Dogon people are primarily agriculturalists and cultivate millet, sorghum and rice, as well as onions, tobacco, peanuts, and some other vegetables.

Since the late 20th century, the Dogon people have developed peaceful trading relationships with other societies and have thereby increased variety in their diets.

Every four days, Dogon people participate in markets with neighboring tribes, such as the Fulani and the Dyula.

The Dogon people primarily sell agricultural commodities: onions, grain, cotton, and tobacco.

Dogon people are among several African ethnic groups that practice female genital mutilation, including a type I circumcision, meaning that the clitoris is removed.

All initiated Dogon people men participate in Awa, with the exception of some caste members.

Dogon people damas include the use of many masks, which they wore by securing them in their teeth, and statuettes.

Dogon people has been frequently referred to as a single language.

The Dogon people dialects are highly distinct from one another and many varieties are not mutually intelligible, actually amounting to some 12 dialects and 50 sub-dialects.

Dogon people languages show few remnants of a unique noun class system, an example of which is that human nouns take a distinct plural suffix.

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Oberg points out a number of errors contained in the Dogon people beliefs, including the number of moons possessed by Jupiter, that Saturn was the furthest planet from the sun, and the only planet with rings.