[PW] Dogon timepiece

[Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD]

I don't know if this is of any help, but I got it from  a Calendrics 
group ...

http://home.earthlink.net/~pcstef/venus_dogon.html

Peter Ingerman

Ivan Van Laningham wrote:

>Hi All--
>I've been told that this picture,
>
>http://www.pauahtun.org/extra/DogonTimepiece1C.jpg
>
>is of a Dogon timepiece.  My partner & I would like to know more about 
>it, in particular how it could be used as a timepiece.  There are 19 
>knobs on stalks with an empty slot, and 8 "petals" surrounding the 
>central hole.  If it had 29 stalks and one empty slot for a total of 30 
>positions, I could see how it could easily be used as a lunar calendar, 
>but not with a total of 20.
>
>We've googled extensively, and have come up with quite a bit on the 
>Dogon, but nothing useful on Dogon timekeeping or calendar.
>
>This is for a museum exhibition, which my partner is co-curating, in a 
>couple of months; if there's information to be had, it would be included 
>in the exhibition.
>
>Metta,
>Ivan
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