Carved wooden "Akua Mma" doll
- maker:
- Ashanti people
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Carved wooden "Akua Mma" doll, the Ashanti ideal of beauty, discoidal head, pillar shaped body, 7 small metal clapperless bells attached, Ashanti, West Africa, 1850-1915
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655917
- Materials:
- wood, glass, beads, tin, bells and hide
- type:
- doll
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
