Palm nut doll dressed in hide and skin back and front aprons.

Item

Title

Palm nut doll dressed in hide and skin back and front aprons.

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Toy
Toy & Game

Description

Doll figure made from two palm nuts; the larger one forms the body [no visible arms or legs], whilst a smaller one attached forms the head. The face and hair is moulded from wax and is decorated with impressed eggshell beads [ostrich]. Dressed in a stomach skin front apron and long hide back apron with strings of green beads around the neck. Covered in lukula red powder.[FHM18/06/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Plant
Moulded
H = 170mm, W = 70mm, D = 60mm [FHM08/07/2019]

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.499
A37/499

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

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Catalogue Card for ETH.ANG 3.499 Physical Object
Ondunga Physical Object
Ondunga, Palm Nut Physical Object