Doll with wax head, breasts and buttocks wearing bead and copper waist belts

Item

Title

Doll with wax head, breasts and buttocks wearing bead and copper waist belts

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Doll Figure

Children

Description

Wax head, arms and buttocks, small wax breasts [one arm and breast now broken off]. Onjeva disc eyes, bead mouth, long bead earring, variety of bead necklaces. Bead and copper hip belts. Body and legs of forked wood. Cloth aprons. According to previous cataloguing information, this was the doll of a young Kwanyama girl, made by her mother and would have been wrapped in cloth around the back. [FHM25/09/2019]