Three dolls "venavi" · Togo, Ewe · ID: 3037445
Brigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, Germany
Description
light brown wood, black paint, a) male, red, blue and white dress, side parting, missing part (right arm), h: 21 cm; b) female, flowered dress, strings of glass beads around the hips, metal earrings, missing parts (fott tips), h: 19 cm; c) female, green dress with floral and spiral motifs, metal earring, rep. (both foot tips broken), h: 23 cm; each with slight traces of abrasion
The object Three dolls “venavi” with the object ID 3037445 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 98.
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Publications
Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 41 f.