"Biga Fertility Doll - Mossi Culture, Burkina Faso - First Half Of The 20th Century"
Biga fertility dollMossi culture, Burkina Faso
First half of the 20th century
Wood
H. 38 ; L 5 cm
A stylised anthropomorphic doll with a long, tapering neck and a minimalist body sculpted in a linear extension. The shoulders are revealed by an indentation in the material, and the face is in the shape of a half-moon, slightly convex on the front.
Geometric scarification marks are incised on the face, temples, neck, chest and stomach.
Mothers would give these Biga dolls to young girls as toys or symbolic accessories for their future marriage or pregnancy.
The Biga had to be carefully preserved.
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