Doll / Fertility figure

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Description

plant fibre, cloth, hide, leather, miniature glass beads, metal, base

All Himba dolls have a rust-brown colouring. Like the Himba women, they have also been rubbed with a cosmetic that the Himba women make from a mixture of butterfat and red iron stone powder.

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Comparing literature

Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 110 ff.

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