Mossi Doll Burkina Faso

Professional seller of african art online for 15 years, offers this beautiful mossi doll, from burkina faso. Predominantly brown patina with many shades. Ethnic engravings and traces of manipulation. Unique piece. Mossi dolls were often commissioned from the local sculptor, and bought by people visiting the market and then given to their daughters as a toy and learning aid. The dolls would be neat and dressed and the girl would take care of them, as if it were her own child. If, when a girl reaches maturity, it is felt that she has taken good care of the doll, the doll will be blessed in such a way as to improve the fertility of the girl. When a woman is married, she often takes the doll with her to her new home as a symbol of fertility.