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
Space/Place
Angola
Africa
Rights
© The Powell-Cotton Trust