Doll ·  Angola, Ovambo · ID: 3037420

Description

wild oranges (Natal orange), completly covered with resin-like mass inset with glass and iron beads, adorned with strings of several materials, min. dam., small missing parts, base;
Ambo women pass dolls down from mother to daughter for generations. When a girl marries and her mother gives her the family doll, her new husband renames it. Later the first child will be given the same name. To hasten the conception and birth of this child, the wife wears the doll pressed against her stomach.

The object Doll with the object ID 3037420 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 114 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.

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Publications

Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 96; Dolls for play and ritual, Berg en Dal 1995, p. 33; Utotombo - L'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges, Bruxelles 1988, p. 259, ill. 284