吊坠：马术 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	吊坠：马术
品名（英）	Pendant: Equestrian
入馆年号	1975年，1975.205
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1800 - 公元 1899
创作地区	马里（Mali）
分类	金属装饰品（Metal-Ornaments）
尺寸	高 3 1/2 × 宽 3 1/4 × 深 1/2 × 长 3 5/8 英寸 (8.9 × 8.3 × 1.3 × 9.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	20世纪初，一位来到多贡国家的欧洲游客写道，当地铁匠通过失蜡工艺制作的装饰品"令人惊讶的完美"。虽然铜合金装饰品在多贡地区已经创造了近一千年，但这些微缩模型的确切年代在很大程度上仍然是推测性的，建立在风格分析的基础上。有趣的是，该地区没有铜矿开采的证据。这种金属可能是通过跨撒哈拉贸易网络获得的，这些网络将铜从西班牙、北非和撒哈拉沙漠带到萨赫勒和苏丹的商业中心。在班迪亚加拉悬崖的严酷景观中，马是一种异国情调的生物，只有富有的商人和酋长很少能买到。马在多贡神话中占有特权地位，是第一种离开地球居住和组织的天方舟的动物。描绘马匹和马术人物的多贡人物反映了自一千多年前马被引入西非以来与马相关的声望和权力。
介绍（英）	A European visitor to Dogon country early in the 20th century wrote of the "astonishing perfection" of the ornaments created by local blacksmiths through the lost-wax process. While copper-alloy ornaments have been created in the Dogon area for almost a millennium, exact dating of these miniatures remains largely speculative, established on the basis of stylistic analysis. Interestingly, there is no evidence of copper mining in the region. The metal may have been obtained through trans-Saharan trade networks that brought copper from Spain, North Africa, and the Sahara to commercial centers of the Sahel and Sudan. In the harsh landscape of the Bandiagara cliffs the horse was an exotic creature only rarely available to wealthy merchants and chiefs. The horse occupies a privileged place in Dogon myth, as the first animal to leave the heavenly ark from which the earth was populated and organized. Dogon figures depicting horses and equestrian figures reflect the prestige and power that has been associated with the horse since it was introduced to West Africa more than a thousand years ago.