Palm nut doll dressed in hide and skin back and front aprons.

Item

Title

Palm nut doll dressed in hide and skin back and front aprons.

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Toy
Toy & Game

Description

Doll figure made from three palm nuts, peeled, with the top two waxed. The hair is decorated with both beaded and seed embedded plaits. Dressed in a stomach skin front and back apron with beaded hip belt and necklace. There is also a decorative back strip lined with buttons. [FHM27/07/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Palm; Nut; Plant
Moulded
H = 195mm [FHM27/07/2019]

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.453
A37/453

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Namibia
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

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Title Alternate label Class
Catalogue Card for ETH.ANG 3.453 Physical Object
Ondunga Physical Object
Ondunga, Palm Nut Physical Object