Fertilty doll ·  Cameroon, Fali · ID: 3037402

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.

The object Fertilty doll with the object ID 3037402 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 104 achieved a sales price of EUR 900.

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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