Doll ·  Tanzanie, Nyaturu · ID: 3037396

Description

pumpkin, brown patina, elongated form, strings of glass beads with cowrie snails coating the upper half of the pumpkin, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
such dolls were carried on the back together with the child and were thought to attract it’s attention by their colourfulness and the rattling sounds they made.

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