A Namtchi Feritlity puppet Northern Kamerun/Tschad, wood, entwined with numerous colorful bead strings, leather straps and cowrie shells and a fetish bag, anthropomorphically designed; signs of ritual use.

The Namji (also called Namchi or Dowayo) young men give their fiancées a wooden doll. Women always carry these dolls with them, either in special containers or in their clothes. Thereby, the women’s readiness to become mothers is communicated to the members of the community, as well. Once the wish to have a child comes true (thanks to the doll’s ‘help’, of course!), these figures are placed on home altars or ‘bequeathed’ to the children.

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Height: 30,5 cm (incl. stand)
Weight: 770 g (incl. stand)