Two dolls
Chad, Bagirmi
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.