Doll made from palm leaf strips with eggshell disc eyes

Item

Title

Doll made from palm leaf strips with eggshell disc eyes

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Doll Figure
Toy & Game

Description

Doll with eggshell disc eyes and palm leaf strips bound with string; fibre and real hairstyle; stick arms; fibre breasts and buttocks. Dressed in a stomach skin front apron, with a brides cattle backskin apron. Also wearing an Onjeva [eggshell] hip belt, skin belt, brides bandeau and two plaited hoop belts. [FHM27/07/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Palm; Fibre; Plant
Tied
H = 270mm [FHM27/07/2019]

Identifier

ETH.ANG2.1317
A36/1317

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1936

Space/Place

Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust