Poupée Adangme Ghana

adangme doll ,ghana  Accra  aera 
ethnical name "tsobii"
beautiful abstraction and quite rare to find ex French collection 
cf udo hortsman collection in cameron isnt she a doll  p 65 magaret field is the only researcher to give an overview of dolls ga "the small flat wooden dolls "tsobii" are almost always found on any rubbish pile and in the footnote she adds I am not sure of the theory of wooden dolls and if it still works in the same way their presence however invariably indicates that a child has died and that he wishes to return I have seen them on piles of waste, on the backs of women while the children alive are tied layers outside the grove of na afye the goddess of birth with offerings of food, pots and lying on a tray with the horns of the twins when one of the twins died (1937n:162FN) 
exfrench collection
AHDRC n°0215660