The Dogon people are agricultural tribes in the Walter Valley. They migrated from the south hundreds of years ago and settled in the south of Timbuktu. Its wood carving art, like the Dogon people, has a unique personality. The oldest carved portrait is called Telum, which was made about 200 years ago. This is a portrait of raising the arm, often combined with animal sculpture, and its image can be seen on sacrificial vessels, stools and wooden troughs. The characteristics of this statue are: the wood is as hard as stone, mostly gray or reddish, vivid and beautiful, and extremely expressive. Some portraits have male and female characteristics: bearded faces, protruding breasts, protruding umbilical cord, bent back, protruding hip lines and sudden fracture, mostly kneeling or sitting, some wearing jewelry, some holding axes, and some holding children.

The more modern statues of Dogon people tend to be geometric in composition, which has a solemn and quiet feeling. It is characterized by the obvious carving surface, the carving lines are mostly at right angles, the body and limbs are cut like gems, the umbilical cord is pyramid-shaped, the head is often semi-circular and cut off at the lower part of the forehead, the eyes and mouth are triangular or square, the ears are semi-circular pendants, the nose is straight as an arrow, some are wearing beads, and some put two figures side by side on a base.

Dogon people also have masks and treat them in a delicate, bold and general way. It is characterized by its slender shape, sometimes rectangular shape, the sunken cheeks are obviously separated from the bridge of the nose, the bridge of the nose is rectangular or herringbone, rich in decoration, the mouth is like a convex cone, and the face modeling is mixed with animal images.

The Dogon people also have a multi-layer mask with a hollowed-out carved top, which is 5 meters high. Kanaga mask is a round mask with a "□" pattern and ancestors on it. There are different interpretations of the meaning of this figure. Some people think it is a symbol of bird hunting; Others think it is a symbol of the crocodile myth of the Dogon people.

There are more than 80 kinds of Dogon faces, all of which are used for dance decoration.