Makonde Fetish Doll with Child, Based
Product ID: A1100-188
$2,395.00
About this piece
A standing bear-like figure, and a small child held tight.
Makonde makers of Tanzania, East Africa, made this fetish doll with child in terra cotta in the late 19th or early 20th century. Mother-and-child imagery is widely associated with fertility and protection. The tall, elongated figure stands on two thick legs and cradles a small child in the crook of one arm, its head tipped toward the infant. The clay is gray-brown and weathered, rough in some places and smooth in others, with slender modeled arms. It rests on a black rectangular base.
About 11 inches tall. The tallest of its tribe, and the gentlest.
