Deux poupées ·  Tchad, Bagirmi · ID: 3048275

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.

Littérature comparée

Dagan, Esther A., African Dolls for play and magic, Montreal 1990, p. 40, fig. 1.3