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: 
57.50cm
SKU: 
3042

This fertility doll is wearing multiple beaded bands aroung her body as young unmarried women do, in addition, at puberty she wears a front apron - isiphephethu - a stiff rectangular shaped, beaded apron.

Ndebele Fertility Doll
Ndebele Fertility Doll
Ndebele Fertility Doll
Ndebele Fertility Doll