Dark clay doll with wooden legs, with cloth and hide apron and pink, white and blue beadwork

Item

Title

Dark clay doll with wooden legs, with cloth and hide apron and pink, white and blue beadwork

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Doll Figure
Figure

Description

Doll made out of dark clay with thin red coloured wooden legs, a spherical head with eyes of white beads pushed into the clay, no arms and small pointed breasts made out of the same wood as the legs. The doll wears a thick black beaded neck piece and an apron made of red coloured cloth on the front, and animal skin with fur still present on the back. Around the waist and hips are several rows of glass seed beads in bands of pink, white and blue.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Wood; Plant
Beadwork
Max H = 240 mm Max W = 70 mm Max D = 40 mm

Identifier

ETH.ANG2.1303
A36/1303

Source

The Powell-Cotton Museum
Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1936

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust