Fertility doll "akua ba" · Ghana, Fante · ID: 3037408
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
Brigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, GermanySize
H: 25 cm
H: 9.8 inch
Description
light brown wood, of characteristic form, neck and hips adorned with strings of glass beads, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, base
The object Fertility doll “akua ba” with the object ID 3037408 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 85 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.
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Publications
Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 38