Author: De Lange, M.
Title: Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums. Reprint. Dolls for the Promotion of Fertility As Used By Some of the Nguni Tribes and the Basotho.
Description: Cape Provincial Museums reprint. nd. Printed argent on royal blue wraps, stapled, 15pp. A4. illustrated b/w photos. A new unread copy. Looks at the different types of dolls - love dolls, fertility or bride dolls, and calling-the-baby or hut dolls. Covers materials, methods of construction, uses. The keeping and manufacture of symbolic dolls is a tradition of the womanfolk alone, revealing the desires of her heart since her advent on earth - to find a man who will love her, and have children. These customs are almost past at this time.

Keywords: basutoland fertility anthropology ethnology south southern africa african basotho basoto nguni lesotho east london museum albany museum grahamstown


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