Carved wooden "akua mma" doll expressing Ashanti ideal of beauty
- maker:
- Ashanti people
Carved wooden "akua mma" doll expressing Asante (Ashanti) ideal of beauty, discoidal head, slightly stylized body with legs and arms, dressed in piece of paisley cloth. Ashanti, West Africa, 1850-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655908
- type:
- doll
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)