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Ashanti Akuaba Fecundity Doll


Beautiful and ancient Ashanti Akuaba. 
Wonderful and ancient patina of wear. 
The bead decorations have been renewed.

Akuaba fecundity dolls are carried on the back by pregnant women, who must not look at a deformed being or object, fearing that their children may look like them.

On the contrary, looking at idealised beauty is supposed to favour the beauty of their progeny.

Factually, rites of Akuaba dolls are more complex.  The doll has to be carried for days, it is sometimes placed on the family altar, the expectant mother must also drink potions and bathe or wash herself with infusions. Once the child is born, what happens to the dolls is variable. Some are offered in gratitude to the healer who requested its creation. He places these on his altar, since an important number of these reveal his power. Otherwise, these were also given to children, as toys.

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Akuaba Ashanti vruchtbaarheidspop - Hout - Achantis - Ghana 