Biga FERTILITY DOLL - Mossi culture, Burkina Faso - First half of the 20th century

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Biga FERTILITY DOLL - Mossi culture, Burkina Faso - First half of the 20th century

Name: Biga FERTILITY DOLL - Mossi culture, Burkina Faso - First half of the 20th century
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: TMDCS6EVTN
Price: 640 EUR
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640 €

Period 20th century

Style Tribal Art

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FERTILITY DOLL Biga
Mossi culture, Burkina Faso
First half of the 20th century
Wood
H.: 38; W.: 5 cm

Stylized anthropomorphic doll with a long, tapered neck and a minimalist body sculpted in a linear extension. The shoulders are shown by a break in the material, the face is half-moon shaped, slightly convex on the front.
Geometric scarifications are incised on the face, temples, neck, chest and stomach.

Mothers offered these Biga dolls to young girls as a toy or symbolic accessory in view of their future marriage or pregnancy.
The Biga had to be kept preciously.

Ref.: 1746

Ref: TMDCS6EVTN

Additional Information

Condition	Very good
Ethnic group	Mossi - Moose
Style	Tribal Art (African Statues, Puppets, Dolls, Maternity of Tribal Art Style)
Period	20th century (African Statues, Puppets, Dolls, Maternity 20th century)
Country of origin	Burkina Faso