Ikoku | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Dark-coloured wooden doll with decorated leather aprons and whiskers. The doll has long, slightly thickened legs, a long neck and a small head. The hands and feet have not been worked out in detail. Mouth, nose and ears are represented by notches or bulges. The eyes are small pearl inlays. The hair has been made from reddish-brown coloured string, and has been styled – cut short at the front and long at the back. The doll is wearing an apron over the chest, and loin cloths over the genitals and the buttocks, all made of leather and decorated with beads and/or inlayed. The chest apron has also been adorned with cowrie shells. Around the neck and the nape of the neck are wide rows of black and red, green and red pearl necklaces. A pearl plait has been woven into the hair on the right and left.
Cataloguing data
Width: 100.0 mm
Depth: 65.0 mm
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Production
Change of legal title:
Purchase
Change of physical control or legal title
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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