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Carved African Ashanti Akua'ba Fertility Doll from Ghana

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Start price: CAD $50

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Description

Carved African Ashanti Akua’ba Fertility Doll, a traditional wooden carving from Ghana. These figures represent an Akan ideal of female beauty and are used to invoke blessings for fertility and a safe pregnancy. 

Design Features: A large, flat, circular head, a ringed neck symbolizing rolls of fat, and an abstracted cylindrical body. Decorated with strands of beads. 
Dimensions: 18 inches H x 6.5 W.
Condition: Crack to one leg, as shown.

Condition report:

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