Fertility doll "mwana hiti" · Tanzania, Luguru · ID: 3037399
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Provenance
Lavuun Quackelbeen, Brussels, BelgiumBrigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, Germany
Size
H: 14,5 cm
H: 5.7 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, remains of black paint at the coiffure, typical abstract in form, strings of glass beads, two-parted coiffure, min. dam., slight traces of insect caused damage
The object Fertility doll “mwana hiti” with the object ID 3037399 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 119.
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Publications
Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 83