Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"
- maker:
- Ashanti people
Carved wooden doll or "Akua Mma", with characteristic flat oval head on pillar shaped body, carried by pregnant women, representation of beauty, Asante people, Ghana, 1890-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A137555
- Materials:
- wood, decoration, glass, beads and decoration, cord
- Measurements:
-
overall: 295 mm x 110 mm x 53 mm, .22 kg
- type:
- doll
- credit:
- Foster