Fertility doll "gimwane" · South Africa, Sotho · ID: 3033314
sold
EUR 1,800
Provenance
Udo Horstmann, Zug, SwitzerlandHarald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (ca. 1980)
Size
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
conical wooden core, coated with twisted grass fibre rings, decorated with buttons, strings of glass beads and metal discs, coiffure of blackened plant fibre;
the skill of making dolls is passed on from the mother to the daughter, as well as the doll itself. The dolls outward appearance is based on clothing once worn at initiation rites, which consists of bundles of twisted grass fibres rings.