Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Mati

The Mati, Dogon Peopeles does not have any information about the artist. The medium for the sculpture are wood and metal. It was crafted in the 16th-17th century.
2. This sculpture is bearing witness to the roles male and female partners as a unit of life. How they are a reflection of each other with delicate and subtle departures that indicate their distinct identities.
3. The artist communicate this story visually by the scale and complexity. The bodies have parallel vertical lines traversed by horizontals that draw them together.
4. The sculpture dose not have information about how it was made only what it was made from which are wood and metal.
5. The materials or manner the artist applied help tells his/her story visually we'll because of the man and women. It's about the nurturer and the provider joined together to procreate and sustain life.
6. Other thoughts I have about this sculpture is that I like how the artist made their bodies more structurally and not life like.