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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