Small doll · Tanzania, Nyamwesi · ID: 3023485
sold
EUR 750
Provenance
Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, GermanySize
H: 15 cm
H: 5.9 inch
Description
pumpkin, remains of black paint, a large number of fine metal rings around the neck, facial features and coiffure formed by blackish mass with miniature glass beads pressed into the soft material, wooden base
Comparing literature
Cameron, Elisabeth L., Isn´t she a doll? Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, Los Angeles 1996, p. 90, ill. 119