Evocations of the child : fertility figures of the southern African region.

Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, 1998.

231 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map ; 28 cm

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery which examined the symbolism and design of Southern African fertility dolls.

Women and material markers of identity / Carolyn Hamilton. -- Double talk / Veliswa Gwintsa. -- The sorghum child : South sotho child figures / Marilee Wood. -- South Sotho fertility figures / Gary van Wyk. -- North Sotho child figures / J.A. van Schalkwyk. -- The girl who ran away and other traditional beaded Zulu dolls / Marilee Wood. -- Enigma dolls : South Sotho and Zulu figures? / Marilee Wood. -- Zulu clay dolls / Frank Jolles. -- Venda and Pedi clay initiation figures for the domba and khomba ceremonies / Karen Harber. -- Tsonga figures / Rayda Becker. -- Ntwane grass figures / Hazel Friedman. -- The puzzle of the pendant figures / Karel Nel, Nessa Leibhammer. -- Swazi evocations of the child / Karel Nel. -- Gender ambiguities and the Venda thahu / Anitra Nettleton. -- Tonga child figures / Karel Nel. -- Lenge tattooed and scarified figures / J.A. van Schalkwyk. -- Mpondo / Yvonne Winters. -- Tswana child figures / J.A. van Schalkwyk. -- Kwanyama Ovambo child figures / Margo Timm . -- Evocations of the child / Karel Nel, Nessa Leibhammer.

Includes bibliographical references.