Lot 0063

Namji Fertility Doll, Namchi - Cameroun - African Art

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Namji Fertility Doll, Namchi - Cameroun - African Art

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Title: Namji Fertility Doll, Namchi - Cameroun - African Art Tribal Art

Description: It is only recently that the dolls of the Namji or Dowayo , an animist mountain people living in northern Cameroon, have only recently been known. These effigies represent the human body in stylized elementary forms. These African tribal dolls are carved in wood by the blacksmith, at first for the game of little girls. But these dolls are mostly used by sterile women in complex fertility rituals, the doll becoming a surrogate child that they will treat as such. In some cases the fiancé offered it to his future wife, the doll representing their future offspring. The decoration of the doll can also reproduce the clothes of the news initiated after their period of confinement.

Item category: Figure, statue

Age: Second half 20th century

Origin: Cameroun

Materials: Wood, pearls, seashells

Dimensions: 12.20 Inch

Weight: 1.32 Pounds

Note: Stand not included.

Reserve: $118.00

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