Poupee rituelle - Nyamwesi - Tanzanie - Poupees africaines

Provenance collection particulière

Très belle et ancienne poupée Nyamwezi, composée de deux fruits de calebasse réunis, décorée de cauris et de perles, mais aussi de cercles de fils de fer.

Ce type de poupée est généralement des plus chargé de perles, bijoux, coquillages et fils de fer.

Très très belle ancienneté et marques d'usage.

La poupée est abondament recouverte de colliers, de perles, cauris.

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Ritual doll - Niyamwezi - Tanzania - African rirual dolls

There are many varied forms of dolls produced by the multitude of tribes that occupy Tanzania.

Some of the better known ones are produced by the Kwere on the coast and the Sukuma and Nyamwezi, inland near Akua the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Across Tanzania these dolls are known as mwana hiti [literally ‘daughter of the stool’, implying that the girl is the figurative daughter of the chief and about to become a woman of the tribe].

Children play with new dolls. Young women ready for initiation are given a doll by an important older woman in her family. .

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Tanzanie

Nyamwezi

35 x 13

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