Two dolls; one made from palm leaf and bound with string, the other wearing an embe fruit decorated headdress

Item

Title

Two dolls; one made from palm leaf and bound with string, the other wearing an embe fruit decorated headdress

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Doll Figure
Toy & Game

Description

Two dolls; one made from palm leaf and bound with string, the other wearing an embe fruit decorated headdress 1. Palm leaf, bound with fibre string. Young girl [okandona] wearing Oinani headdress of Embe fruit. Named: Shatumbo.
2. Doll; young girl [okana], wearing oinani headdress of embe fruit stones. Small. [FHM27/07/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Bead
Tied

Identifier

ETH.ANG2.1319
A36/1319

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1936

Space/Place

Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust