Carved wooden "Akua mona" doll
- Made:
- 1840-1910
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Carved wooden "Akua mona" doll, flattened face with bead strands for hair, pillar-like body, carved by expectant mothers in order that the child shall be beautiful, West African, 1840-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655937
- Materials:
- wood, glass, beads and straw
- type:
- doll
- credit:
- Branch, H.C.
