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品名（中）	图：男性
品名（英）	Figure: Male
入馆年号	1985年，1985.422.2
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 1100 - 公元 1700
创作地区	马里（Mali）
分类	木雕（Wood-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 25 3/8 x 宽 3 7/8 x 深 4 5/8 英寸 (64.5 x 9.9 x 11.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	尽管它的确切文化和起源日期尚不清楚，但这部作品无论从风格还是时间上都很吸引人。它抽象而突出的面部特征、备用但优雅的服装和著名的物品使它与多贡雕塑有关，但它的风格和肖像与12至17世纪的尼日尔内陆三角洲陶俑有很多共同之处。事实上，有人认为这座雕塑与这些陶俑同时存在，这一假设已被早期的放射性碳年代所证实这尊木雕描绘了一位杰出的长者，他的举止、衣着和表现都值得尊敬。他的短裤和棉帽是传统多贡服饰的特色，右肩上的L形木棒被多贡男人用作武器、工具和仪式物品。诸如挂在脖子上的装饰性挂件和绑在左臂上的刀等配饰都会引起人们的注意，并加强这个男人的尊严和崇高地位目前还不能肯定地断言这件作品是多贡人自己或邻近民族制作的。这幅作品和其他类似的作品是我们刚刚开始了解的一个地区和历史的遗产，是众多具有无可争议的萨赫勒特征但来源不明的人物之一。
介绍（英）	Although its precise culture and date of origin are unknown, this work is intriguing for both stylistic and chronological reasons. Its abstract, protuberant facial features, spare but elegant dress, and prestigious objects relate it to Dogon sculptures, but its style and iconography share much in common with that of Inland Niger Delta terracottas of the twelfth to seventeenth centuries as well. Indeed, it has been suggested that this sculpture is contemporaneous with these terracottas, a hypothesis that has been reinforced by early radiocarbon dates. This wooden sculpture depicts a distinguished elder whose demeanor, attire, and presentation command respect. His short trousers and cotton cap are characteristic of traditional Dogon dress, and the L-shaped wooden staff slung over his right shoulder is used as a weapon, tool, and ritual object by Dogon men. Accoutrements such as the decorative pendant hanging about his neck and the knife strapped to his left arm call attention to and reinforce the man's dignity and high status. At present it is not possible to definitely assert that this work was made by the Dogon themselves or a neighboring people. One of the many figures with unquestionably Sahelian features but uncertain provenance, this work and others like it are legacies of a region and history that we are only beginning to understand.