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
Comparing literature
Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 131
Publications
AHDRC: 0142325