Fertility doll "gimwane" · South Africa, Ntwane · ID: 3042260
sold
EUR 700
Provenance
Galerie Grusenmeyer, Ghent, BelgiumSize
H: 37,5 cm
H: 14.8 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
The object Fertility doll “gimwane” with the object ID 3042260 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 517 achieved a sales price of EUR 700.
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Comparing literature
Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 131
Publications
AHDRC: 0142325