"Xhosa-mpondo "ngwana Doll, South Africa "
very rare Xhosa -mpondo or Sotho or Tswana-Ngwato doll. ethnic name "ngawana" made of a calabash with a beaded skirt, the trunk wrapped in glass beads, arms in beaded leatherProvenance Galerie Laprugne 1937-2023
the only dolls of this type that we find, appear in museums: Berg en dal Afrika Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, at the Geneva Museum of Ethnography
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