10 - [AFRICA - DOGON]. GRIAULE, Marcel. Dogon Masks.

[AFRICA - DOGON]. GRIAULE, Marcel. Dogon Masks. First edition of the “bible” of Dogon statuary and masks, the result of the famous Dakar-Djibouti ethnographic and linguistic mission led by ethnologist Marcel Griaule between 1931 and 1933, illustrated with numerous figures, maps, and photographs, and complete with its accompanying music record. Paris, Institute of Ethnology, University of Paris, 1938. In-4 (270 x 200 mm) Bradel-style binding, full pine-green percaline by the publisher, smooth spine adorned with the title and author’s name gilt lengthwise, geometric embossed decoration on the covers (contemporary binding). VIII, 896 pages, XXXII plates, numerous black-and-white and color illustrations in the text. Caps rubbed, slight marks on the percaline, hinge slightly fragile on the front cover. First edition of the most comprehensive study ever published on the cosmogony, mythology, and rituals of the Dogon people of the Bandiagara Escarpment (Mali), based on several ethnographic expeditions led by the ethnologist Marcel Griaule between 1928 and 1937 in Abyssinia, from Dakar to Djibouti (with Michel Leiris, who wrote *L’Afrique fantôme* on this occasion). It is illustrated with numerous reproductions of paintings, masks, and photographs from the expeditions. A complete copy of the record featuring the music of the Kagandige dance set to the rhythm of the same name. Clean and fresh interior.