Fertility Dolls

These hand-carved fertility dolls are from the Ashanti Tribe in Ghana.

This hand-carved fertility doll is from the Ashanti Tribe in Ghana.

Each of these beaded wooden figures is a fertility doll of the Fali people of Cameroon. Known as ham pilu, the dolls are created by newly betrothed young men and then given to their ...

Ghanaian 20th century mirrored fertility doll hand carved by the Ashanti people depicting a figure with exaggerated brows, serpentine shapes over the head and upper body and a mirror...

Ghanaian 20th century mirrored fertility doll hand carved by the Ashanti people depicting a figure with exaggerated brows, serpentine shapes over the head and upper body and a mirror...

PAIR of Ghanaian 20th century mirrored fertility doll hand carved by the Ashanti people depicting a figure with exaggerated brows, serpentine shapes over the head and upper body and ...

Disc-headed Acua'ba figures such as this one served an important role in Ashanti society. They began as a promise for a beautiful child, and in the event that the child disappeared, ...

An Asante wooden aku’aba fertility doll, published as part of the Ladislas Segy collection and dating to the early 20th century.

Reinterpretation in bronze of an African fertility doll. These traditional figures have long symbolised fertility, protection, and maternal care in African cultures.

This kind of phallic stoneware as well as the other erotic pottery was believed to be fertility dolls for the burial ritual, but recent theory also suggests that it may be related to...

Autopsy explores the fragility of life, inspired by South African traditional fertility dolls. African dolls across the continent are created for young girls to play with and as a ch...

Autopsy explores the fragility of life, inspired by South African traditional fertility dolls. African dolls across the continent are created for young girls to play with and as a ch...

Autopsy explores the fragility of life, inspired by South African traditional fertility dolls. African dolls across the continent are created for young girls to play with and as a ch...

Given to encourage fertility, these dolls are made for young girls to play with, strapping them to their backs and carrying them around to mirror the responsibility of their mothers....

20th Century African Beaded Fali Fertility Doll from Cameroon Offered is a beaded Mid-20th Century African Fali fertility doll which comes from Cameroon.

Presenting a stunning piece of west African Tribal Art, namely, a mid-20th century Ghanayan Akuba fertility doll. Probably made circa 1960 in Ghana by the Akan Tribe.

A fine Old Ashanti fertility Doll Akua'ba figure.   A aged figure with honey patina disc shaped head with T shaped features, carved in shallow relief, the upper body with ridged ne...

This tall 'primitive' stoneware lamp features fertility dolls and sun rays on the base. New linen shade.

Autopsy explores the fragility of life, inspired by South African traditional fertility dolls. African dolls across the continent are created for young girls to play with and as a ch...

Matryoshka is associated in Russia with family and fertility. Matryoshka dolls are a traditional representation of the mother carrying a child within her and can be seen as a repres...

Matryoshka is associated in Russia with family and fertility. Matryoshka dolls are a traditional representation of the mother carrying a child within her and can be seen as a repres...

Ndebele beaded fertility dolls are given to young girls when they attend initiation school.

It finds its most visible form in the gimwane, a traditional fertility doll constructed from plaited grass, wool and beads.

A very rare and important Sotho fertility figure. The earliest accounts of South Sotho dolls claim that they were carried by childless women, and were used to appeal to the “Spiri...