Register Auction 107
Zemanek-Münster
Doll-like torso figure, Tanzania, Mambwe, Size: H: 21,5 cm (H: 8.5 inch), ID: 3053658
Doll-like torso figure, Tanzania, Mambwe, Size: H: 21,5 cm (H: 8.5 inch), ID: 3053658 - 2/5 Doll-like torso figure, Tanzania, Mambwe, Size: H: 21,5 cm (H: 8.5 inch), ID: 3053658 - 3/5 Doll-like torso figure, Tanzania, Mambwe, Size: H: 21,5 cm (H: 8.5 inch), ID: 3053658 - 4/5 Doll-like torso figure, Tanzania, Mambwe, Size: H: 21,5 cm (H: 8.5 inch), ID: 3053658 - 5/5
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Lot 91
Auction 107

Doll-like torso figure ·  Tanzania, Mambwe · ID: 3053658

Starting price
EUR 2,000
Estimated price
EUR 3,000
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Provenance
Jean Willy Mestach, Brussels, Belgium
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium
Alain Guisson, Brussels, Belgium
Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 7 July 2018, lot 502
Arno Henseler, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 21,5 cm
H: 8.5 inch

Description

wood, black miniature glass beads, base

Of extraordinary minimalistic shape, the usually depicted female attributes (coiffure, navel, breasts, scarification marks) are missing. Like the “mwana hiti” dolls used for initiation ceremonies and also worn by women in order to enhance fertility.

Publications

Jahn, Jens (ed.), Tanzania, München 1994, p. 48, ill. II/18

AHDRC: 0153493

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