Pregnant corn cob doll with an elaborate clay hair style wearing cloth aprons and a band above her breasts.

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Pregnant corn cob doll with an elaborate clay hair style wearing cloth aprons and a band above her breasts.

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Doll Figure

Description

Doll made from a long thin maize husk. Clay has been added to the doll to create head, chest, breasts and a protruding abdomen. Black markings have been painted on the dolls breasts and in a long strip down the centre of the face. There are small decorative indentations in the forehead area. The dolls hair is made of narrow strips of chequered fabric with small egg shaped pieces of clay moulded onto the ends. The doll is wearing at least two kinds of fabric (one chequered, one plain) around her waist, they have been tied on with string below the abdomen.

[NSty 28/07/2020]

The hair on this doll seems to be showing the hairstyle worn by married Mwilla women, see Scherz, Scherz, Taapopi and Otto1999 [NSty 14/07/2020]