Doll Biiga

The Biiga dolls are manufactured by the Mossi Bulsa region. They are dolls with a virtually cylindrical structure, with a relief at the level of the breasts and sometimes the belly somewhat dotted, in sign of a future motherhood. Others can mark a slight narrowing at waist level by structuring the body in two parts. They lack arms and legs, the breasts being the only relevant part. The head keeps the morphology of the mossi statuary. Some figures can be covered in leather or carry the small ornament of a cauri in the belly, the cauri, being a symbol of the female sex represents fertility.

This mossi doll, called Biiga, has a complex symbolism. For the girl it is at the same time the strength that will make her have in her day a child and at the same time the baby that learns so to take care to train to be a mother.The Biigapasa from mother to daughter or sister to sister. They are fecundity female statues that are real objects of use.

Biiga in “more” means “child”. The “child” is considered by the Mossi like the reincarnation of the ancestor who grants him a “sigha”, part of the immortal substance kept by the ancestors. Asyla Biigaa will ensure a good pregnancy and a good birth and will protect the newborn by preserving him from the curses that could cause him to “come back”, that is, die.

This wrist has five distinct parts, the head, neck lined with leather strips, torso, bottom of the trunk and rounded monoblock socket. Slightly swinging and a cauri on the navel, symbols of fertility.