Doll
· Tanzania, Nyaturu
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ID: 3037396
sold
EUR 400
Provenance
Lavuun Quackelbeen, Brussels, BelgiumBrigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, Germany
Size
H: 21,5 cm
H: 8.5 inch
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.