Fertility doll "gimwane" ·  South Africa, Ntwane · ID: 3037404

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

The object Fertility doll “gimwane” with the object ID 3037404 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 127 achieved a sales price of EUR 400.

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Publications

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