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From Patrick Remm's collection
Johannesbourg - South Africa
These dolls always express beauty and embody feminine ideal:
reached in age to procreate, the woman concerns it the doll and protects,
by contemplating her completed features, to obtain a beautiful baby.
Then in the tower become mother, she will confide her " doll
child " to her elder daughter so that this last one cycle
These dolls are dressed very frequently in necklaces, in
tissues in not totally to cover them.
Wood, pearls, leather and cotton thread.
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