Small pottery figurine of a girl wearing her initiation ceremony costume

Small pottery figurine of a girl wearing her initiation

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Small pottery figurine of a girl wearing her initiation
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Small pottery figurine of a girl wearing her initiation ceremony costume, swathed in grass coil and leather skirt with apron, on plaster base, Sotho tribe, Basutoland, 1880-1910

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A655896
Materials:
pottery, grass, leather and base, plaster
Measurements:
height 165 mm
length 56 mm
width 60 mm
type:
statues