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Doll

Doll. Woman with child, wood covered with red calico, nailed, from... Strings of cowrie shells (Karteik. Berlin). Wooden doll covered with red calico and studded with brass buttons; decorated with leather strips and cowrie strings (Vienna index card). Entry in the main historical catalogue: Doll, covered with shells Fruit like no. 321, with wooden head covered with shells.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
"afro-brasilianisch"
Object type
Doll
Dimensions
Länge x Breite x Höhe: 15 x 10 x 8 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Calico, dyed red, Brass nails, Leather, dyed red, Snails (cowries, Cypraea moneta), Brass wire
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V B 302
Related object(s)
is related to : Objektbezug: V B 298, Puppe, Wilhelm Pietzker (1880)
Objektbezug: V B 298, Puppe, Wilhelm Pietzker (1880)

Provenance and sources

where
Brazil [Land]
who
"afro-brasilianisch"

who
Wilhelm Pietzker - Collectors

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