figure;
toy
- Museum number
- Af1973,19.46
- Description
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Clay human toy figure with bent legs. Genderless, with one broken leg and one arm detached.
- Production date
- 7 October 1972
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.50 centimetres
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Width: 5.70 centimetres
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Depth: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Vendor's fieldwork notes: 'Made by a group of children...during massive 'modelling bee' in which children and 2 women made models and gave me the results. Used loose dust on verandas - it had been 'hard mortar' so good raw material.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1973
- Acquisition notes
- Af1973,19.1 to 83 is a field collection made by Mrs Margret Carey, a former member of the BM staff, among the Bemba in Zambia. See Eth.Doc.388 (now collection fiile Af1973,19.1-83).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1973,19.46