Old African Brass Inlaid & Carved &
Beaded Wooden Ashanti Akuaba Fertility Doll
…beautiful collection and display piece
Old African Brass Inlaid, Carved and Beaded, Wooden Ashanti
Akuaba Fertility Doll, a beautiful collection and display piece… Akua'ba (sometimes spelled Akwaba or Akuba)
are wooden ritual fertility dolls from Southern Ghana and
nearby areas. The best known akua'ba are those of the Fanti
people, “Fanti Dolls” whose akua'ba have large, disc-like heads.
Other tribes in the West Africa region (f.ex. Kru and Igbo people) have
their own distinctive style of akua'ba.
Traditionally, these dolls are
carried on the back of young women either hoping to conceive a child, or
to ensure the attractiveness of the child being carried. When not in active
use, the akua'ba would be ritually washed and cared for in the
traditional homestead. The treatment of the Akua'ba has been
described as an example of traditional beliefs that corresponds to many
traditional beliefs in West African sympathetic magic. Please see
detail photos which form part of the description… STU/A22
The
measurements are
Size: 27.5 cm
High X 5 cm Deep X 11.5 cm Wide @ Head
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Many of the items for sale at Jim’s International Bazaar
were collected by Jim on his around the world adventures as an author,
photojournalist and photographer. They include Turkish rugs, copper and
brass, and artifacts from
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
James Anderson
is an internationally renowned photojournalist and
adventurer, with two major photographic books (New Guinea & Cannibal), plus
covers and major spreads in a whole host of internationally prestigious
magazines from Life International to The Geographic and Argosy.
He's been shipwrecked in the Pacific, wrestled camels in
A blue-water yachtsman, he sailed his own 60ft yacht, the
"Moana Vahine", from Hong Kong to Southern Turkey, down the South
China Sea, across the Indian Ocean, and up the full length of the Red Sea, via
Singapore, Panang, Sri lanki, The Maldive Islands, and French Djibouti. An avid
diver and spear fisherman, he mounted a series of diving expeditions in The
In addition to several years in