Dolls baby carrier made from cattle skin; decorated with pendant strings of embe fruit stones (in a double layer).

Item

Title

Dolls baby carrier made from cattle skin; decorated with pendant strings of embe fruit stones (in a double layer).

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Toy
Children

Description

Doll's baby carrier made from a piece of cattle skin turned over at one end [top], with wide, thick thongs sewn down the sides with a fibre strip to form an attachment. Decorated with pendant strings of embe fruit stones [in a double layer]. The strings are held together by a horizontal string.[FHM18/06/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Animal Skin
Beadwork
L = 220mm, W = 110mm

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.503
A37/503

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937
The Powell-Cotton Museum

Space/Place

Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

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