Lot 0094

Traditional Namji Statue Doll - Cameroon - African Art

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Traditional Namji Statue Doll - Cameroon - African Art

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Title: Traditional Namji Statue Doll - Cameroon - African Art Tribal Art

Provenance/Additional Info: It is only quite recently that the dolls of the Namji, people of animist mountain people living in the north of Cameroon, were known. These effigies represent the human body in elementary stylized forms. This handcrafted sculpture presents a head with a crest, a body encircled with necklaces of lively pearls. Used for the play of little girls, these dolls are mostly used by infertile women in complex fertility rituals, the doll becoming a surrogate child, which they will treat as such. The decoration of the doll generally reproduces the finery of the new initiates after their period of seclusion.

Item Category: Figure, reliquary, doll

Date/Period: Second half 20th century

Origin: Cameroon

Materials: Wood, pearls

Height:20,47 Inch

Weight: 2,54 Pounds

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