Fertility Figure

Item number Aj106 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Wood figure representing a young man. Elongated slender figure carved in wood and blackened. Straight crude limbs and small delicately carved features. Rough black wool yarn has been glued on for hair and small white beads glued at eyes. Dressed in an outer apron. Inner apron and dress-like front apron in leather with large rich coloured beads in green, red, blue, and white.

History Of Use

Carved wooden figure for a young married women to promote fertility. The wooden figure would be carved by the girl's father, and the miniature clothes made by the mother, or the girl herself, usuing their own beads and leather cut from her clothing. After giving birth to her first child it would be passed along to a sister.