Initiation post ·  Tanzania, Morogoro Region / Nguru Mountains, Kaguru / Sagara / Luguru · ID: 3049078

Description

wood, traces of weathering, base

These posts formed the center pole in initiation huts for young girls.

Meurant reports about forty of these posts collected in the vicinity of Morogoro. Jahn reproduces a selection of them in the form of sketches, one of which largely corresponds to the present one (Jahn, 1994, S. 223 V / 7).

According to Meurant, the posts, which show more or less stylized breasts and a head, represent the mother with whom the young girls are supposed to identify.

Comparing literature

Jahn, Jens (Hg.), Tanzania, München 1994, p. 223 V/7