Wooden doll
- maker:
- Yoruba people
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Wooden doll, stylized carving of female fertility figure representing idealization of beauty, West Africa, 1880-19207
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A54323
- Materials:
- wood
- Measurements:
-
height 202 mm
body: width 67 mm
thickness 5 mm
head: width 26 mm
- type:
- doll
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
