Timed | forms of fertility: the phallus collection | lot 4000 - 4160

An important 'Oda Matan' Timor house door in exotic hardwood Of very heavy wood, these doors were symbolic entrances to the communal house. This house, as in other parts of Southeast Asia, is divided into male and female. This female door, adorned with a stylized image of a woman, has feminine symbols more often distilled, as here, to a pair of breasts above an ornamental panel with labyrinth-like spirals. The curved form above the breasts may represent a headhunter's headdress (buffalo horns), which is more prominent on men's doors.... lees meer

A large African tribal Voodoo cult wooden phallus

A carved wooden fertility statue of a couple having intercourse, Lobi People, Burkina Faso

A small wooden Gba circumcision chair, Baoulé people, Ivory Coast

A very rare black clay Yaka pipe, decorated with a man's head with a phallus-shaped beard, D.R. Congo

These were used to plant in the ground to make it fertile.

The object on the left is a European erotic bowl (around 1900).

Carved bone and wood.

Added: two brass fertility-themed rings with animals having intercourse.