Ikoku

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Doll

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.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Turkana
Object type
Puppe
Dimensions
Höhe: 520.0 mm, Breite: 100.0 mm, Tiefe: 65.0 mm
Material/Technique
Carving
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/3123

Provenance and sources

when
1950 - 1970

when
02.09.1996

where
Africa (location/origin)
Kenya (location/origin)
who
Privatbesitz - Collectors

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