Amazing RARE Ancient Fertility Ikoku Turkana Doll !!  Tanzania Kenya !!

The Turkana are a Nilotic, semi-nomadic pastoral people of northwestern Kenya. They live in dry country centering on Lake Turkana which has no outlet and is fed by the Omo River flowing south from the Ethiopian Highlands. Turkana dolls were traditionally carved by older male relatives, with adornments fabricated by mothers and older sisters. As Kenya has a long history with tourism as well as with settlers of European origin, Turkana dolls, headrests and other traditional, used artifacts came to the attention of visitors as ethnographic souvenirs as early as the 1920’s.

 This doll is approx 11"T, It has a fiber coiffure, beaded eyes and collar, beaded and shells decorated leather skirt. 

Good condition with age signs and wear, small holes to the leather skirt and small old chip to the side base, no cracks. 

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