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.
H: 21,5 cm
Provenance:
Lavuun Quackelbeen, Brussels, Belgium
Brigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, Germany
Published in:
Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 86

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