akua'ba;
doll
- Museum number
- Af.8007
- Description
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Akua'ba, female 'doll' figure; made of wood with rectangular head, ringed neck, breasts, and projecting navel. Pupil (right eye) made of ?porcelain set into ?resin. Facial features pyro-decorated. Columnar torso expanding to base. Wears strings of multi-coloured glass beads around neck; single string of blue glass beads at base. Strings of blue and white glass beads at top of head. Skin with hair attachments at top of head.
- Production date
- 1850-1872 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 29 centimetres
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Width: 5.70 centimetres
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Depth: 4.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Slip records this as an "Ashanti doll".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Acquisition notes
- Af.8001 to Af.8010 were presented by the collector R G Whitfield on 31 July 1872.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.8007
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1872C1.8007 (old CDMS no.)
