A Fine and Rare Fante Doll, Ghana

standing on bent naturalistic legs, the elongated torso with small protruding breasts leading to a ridged circular neck surmounted by a highly abstract flat head with insized geometric decoration on the reverse and bundles of hair inserted into the top, with multiple strands of beads and shells attached consisting of coral (corallium rubrum) and land snail (acavus haemastoma); fine aged patina with traces of kaolin.

Herbert Rieser, London
Acquired from the above, 1950

Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., 1968-1969

For a closely related example cf. Thompson (1974: 53, pl. 58).