Marcel Griaule was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. He worked together with Germaine Dieterlen and Jean Rouch on African subjects. His publications number over 170 books and articles for scholarly journals.
Members of the Mission Dakar-Djibouti in the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris, 1931. Left to right: André Schaeffner, Jean Mouchet, Georges Henri Rivière, Michel Leiris, le baron Outomsky, Marcel Griaule, Éric Lutten, Jean Moufle, Gaston-Louis Roux, Marcel Larget
Dogon sculpture (Louvre)
An art dealer in Sangha, Mali professes to be the grandson of Ogotemmeli, known from Griaules publications, 1990
The Dogon are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, and in Burkina Faso. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000. They speak the Dogon languages, which are considered to constitute an independent branch of the Niger–Congo language family, meaning that they are not closely related to any other languages.
Dogon men in their ceremonial attire
A Dogon hunter with a flintlock musket, 2010.
Dogon dwellings along the Bandiagara Escarpment.
Kanaga mask in three pieces; 20th century; 108 x 59.1 x 22.9 cm (421⁄2 x 231⁄4 x 9 in); Brooklyn Museum (New York City)
