Fertility doll "akua ba" ·  Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3037935

Description

wood, encrusted blackish brown patina, three strings of glass beads, variation of the pure abstract form: facial features, breasts, navel and legs with naturalistic appeal, T-shaped arms allusively carved with hands, the common disc shape of the face restricted on the coiffure, slightly dam., minor missing parts, patina peeled off in parts

The object Fertility doll “akua ba” with the object ID 3037935 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 227 achieved a sales price of EUR 400.

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Comparing literature

Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 38