Fertilty doll

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Description

wood, brown patina, nearly entirely wrapped in strings of glass beads, leather strips with affixed cowrie snails, base;
young men used to give such dolls to their fiancée. They should symbolize the sex the firstborn child should have.

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Publications

Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 57; Dolls for play and ritual, Berg en Dal 1995, p. 27

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