Carved wooden akua‘ba doll
- maker:
- Ashanti people
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Carved wooden "akua mma" doll which expressed the Ashanti ideal
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Carved wooden ‘akua‘ba’ (plural akua mma) doll which expressed the Asante ideal of beauty, disc shaped head, pillar-like body, stylized version of human form, carried by women to aid conception and a healthy and successful birth, Asante, 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
- Measurements:
-
height 318 mm
head: diameter 118 mm
body, base: diameter 50 mm
width 122 mm
- type:
- doll
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)