Two dolls · Chad, Bagirmi · ID: 3048275
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
French Private CollectionSize
H: 27 cm & 30,5 cm
H: 10.6 inch & 12.0 inch
Description
wood, blackened, rest.
Pierre Harter observed the use of these dolls as fertility symbols in the 1990s. He suspected that young girls carry the little dolls around in a leather bag or wrapped in cloth, similar to the custom observed among the Fali of northern Cameroon.
Comparing literature
Dagan, Esther A., African Dolls for play and magic, Montreal 1990, p. 40, fig. 1.3