Ndebele Fertility Doll
Type: figure
Exhibits: Cycle of Life
Tribes: Ndebele people
Location: South Africa
Period: 20th Century
Materials: Fabrics, Glass Beads, Plant Fiber, Strings
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H:
49.50cm
SKU:
3041 The multiple beaded bands around the fertility doll, duplicate bands made from straw rings covered with beads worn aroun neck, legs, arms and waist of an unmarried young women (Knight & Priebatsch 1983: 18 cited in Cameron 1996:110). This doll represents a young girl, at puberty as wearing ishphephethu - a stiff rectangular shaped beaded front apron.
