Cylindrical doll, with spherical head and base, wrapped in pearlescent, blue beadwork and animal hide.

Item

Title

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Doll Figure

Toy & Game

Description

Doll carved from wood and greased in lukula; spherical head and base with a cylindrical body. The face is finely carved, with inlaid ostrich eggshell eyes. It is elaborately dressed in various beads of blue, green and pearlescent colours. Wrapped around the base is an animal hide skin apron. This doll would have been given to a young girl by her father, and named by her future fiance - a name that their first-born daughter would receive.[FHM19/06/2019]