Carved wooden "akua mma" doll which expressed the Ashanti ideal of beauty

Made:
1851-1920 in Ghana
maker:
Ashanti people
Carved wooden akua mma' doll which expressed the Ashanti ideal Carved wooden "akua mma" doll which expressed the Ashanti ideal

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Carved wooden akua mma' doll which expressed the Ashanti ideal
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Carved wooden "akua mma" doll which expressed the Ashanti ideal
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Carved wooden "akua mma" doll which expressed the Ashanti ideal of beauty, disc shaped head, pillar-like body, stylized version of human form, carried by pregnant woman, Ashanti, West Africa, 1851-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A655902
Materials:
wood and glass, beads
type:
doll
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)