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Fertility doll "gimwane"
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Lot 127
78th tribal art auction

Fertility doll "gimwane"

South Africa, Ntwane
sold EUR 400
Provenance
Brigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, Germany
Size
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch

Description

conical wooden core, coated with cloth, twisted grass fibre rings and bead bracelets, decorated with buttons and strings of glass beads, coiffure of blackened plant fibre

Publications

Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 131
Africa

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