Large doll with wooden core body wrapped in fibre netting, circular plaited arms with various bracelets.

Item

Title

Large doll with wooden core body wrapped in fibre netting, circular plaited arms with various bracelets.

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Toy
Children

Description

Large doll figure with wooden core body wrapped in fibre netting with a grass collar and base. Circular plaited arms, adorned with various bracelets. Knotted fingers, breasts and navel. Brass pin eyes. Hair is made from a mass of strings decorated at ends with beads, a double plait down centre with a few white beads.[FHM18/06/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Wood; Plant
Braided
H = 255mm

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.492
A37/492

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Mwila

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

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