Doll ·  Tanzania, Nyaturu · ID: 3037396

Description

pumpkin, brown patina, elongated form, strings of glass beads with cowrie snails coating the upper half of the pumpkin, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
such dolls were carried on the back together with the child and were thought to attract it’s attention by their colourfulness and the rattling sounds they made.

The object Doll with the object ID 3037396 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 123 achieved a sales price of EUR 400.

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Publications

Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 86