PCM object collections
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PCM object collections
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Dried African bullfrog with dark grey skin and yellow underside
Dried African bullfrog with all limbs, feet and head still attached. Although the frog is very round and broad in life, the dried body is shrivelled and thin. The jaw is wide and gaping. The back is a dark grey colour and the underside is yellow. The catalogue card records that this is a foodstuff that was sun dried, and would then cooked and eaten with butter and porridge. -
Seed bag made from a beige, globular woolly nest, containing castor oil seeds
Seed bag made from a beige, globular woolly birds nest, recorded as being the nest of a tit. The nest has been tied together at the top, and used to store small black castor oil seeds. -
Gourd pipe with wooden stem, black clay pipe bowl and hollow cylindrical wooden base
Gourd pipe with wooden stem, which has been inserted into a hole in the body of the gourd, and secured with plant fibre string wrapped around the neck. The pipe bowl is made of black clay, and shaped like an hourglass. It is decorated with cross marks and zigzag lines, with decorative ridges in the narrow middle section. The round body of the gourd rests in a hollow cylindrical wooden base which has been nailed into the gourd and is decorated with raffia stitching. There is a second, loose black clay bowl similar to the one attached to the pipe, with the same number. -
Wooden toy car with long chassis, with cross hatched wheels on front and rear axles
Toy car made of a long piece of wood carved to form the chassis, with two rods pushed through drilled holes to form front and rear axles. The four wheels, which look like they have been cut from sections of a thick branch, have a crosshatch design carved onto the outside of the tyres. -
Bullroarer made from a thin slat of wood tied to stick with plant fibre
Bullroarer made from a thin oval shaped piece of wood and bark with a small hole in one end, tied to a stick with plant fibre string which has been wound around it several times. The stick is unworked. Described in the Powell-Cotton sisters' curios list as a 'boy's toy'. -
Large cylindrical doll made of braided plant fibre with elaborate hair or head dress with blue beads
Large doll with a simple cylindrical body made of a golden coloured braided plant fibre, wrapped around a core of the same fibre, with a slightly wider base. The doll has no defined head or face but wears an elaborate hairstyle or head dress also made of braided plant fibre and decorated with blue glass beads at the end of four of the braids. There is a darker coloured strip of plant fibre string woven into the centre parting of the hairstyle. -
Simply carved wooden doll with a groove for neck and torso, etched face and arms
A simple wooden doll made by a boy. The shape is cylindrical with a groove to represent the neck and another below the torso. The face has been carved with lines to represent eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and ears. There is a zigzag design on the back of the head. The arms and hands are etched on the torso. The top and bottom of the doll are flat and the bottom section where the legs are is plain. -
Carved wooden doll with a flat head, with blackened decoration showing arms and shorts
A wooden doll with a round flat head carved from a thick branch. The bark texture of the branch has been left on the head portion of the doll, which has a wide slit for a mouth and a slit on either side of the head for eyes. Sections of the body have been blackened to create the impression of arms and clothing in the form of an open shirt and shorts. The legs have been individually carved and the buttocks and hem of the shirt have been carved at the back. -
Clay doll with rounded head, arms, legs and breasts, dressed in a cloth rag and wrapped in string
A clay doll made by a girl and named 'Noriku' by the girl's mother. The doll is formed of a rounded head which has several holes poked in it. It has separately formed arms, legs and protruding breasts. The doll is dressed in a rag which is tied at the waist and between the legs with string. -
Clay doll with round head, long bowed legs and one short arm, dressed in a cloth rag and beads
A clay doll with round head. The doll originally had eyes, nose and mouth made by pressing millet grains into the clay. Only the left eye remains. It has long legs in proportion to the other features and short arms. The left arm has broken off. The doll is dressed in a rag which is tied around the waist with a thinner strip of rag as a belt. It wears a necklace of red and green glass beads. -
Simple doll made from two round palm fruits, with hide and string ties around the middle
Simple doll made from two round palm fruits, one representing the head and one the body, with hide and string ties around the waist. The face is formed of three inserted seeds or beads, two of which are missing, with only the left eye remaining. The hair has been representing by lines etched into the palm fruit to create a centre parting and four vertical sections on each side of the head. The doll has a black animal hide tie and several loops of plant fibre string around its neck. The ends of these fibres extend down the back of the doll. -
Doll made of plant fibre bound with string, female figure with a large braided head dress
Female doll figure made of plant fibre bound with plant string, The body is simple with separate legs, no arms, breasts, long neck and no detail on the face. The figure has a large braided hairstyle or head dress, and wears two strings of red glass beads around the neck, a long brown cloth front apron and shorter back apron. The figure is described in the Powell-Cotton sisters curio list as a 'bride wearing headdress.'