Fertility doll ·  Ghana, Fante · ID: 3035153

Description

wood, blotched brown patina, kaolin, two strings with white miniature glass beads, the armless trunk atypically carved with legs, the fine grooved neck supporting a board-shaped lengthened head, abundantly adorned with incised ornaments on the back, slightly dam., missing part (right foot), paint rubbed off;
such figures were worn by young women wrapped into their skirts, in order to get pregnant and give birth to a healthy and beautiful child.