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Hearst Museum object titled Dog figurine, accession number 5-861, described as Termite mud dogs; okambua konata-puppy from mud; made by girls or women.

Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-863, described as Termite mud dolls; native term: okaana konata (child from mud), ounona vomanata (plural); two of the dolls are covered with commercial red oxide instead of with red ochre of the headress, with is obtained from the omuva tree roots; a woman who wished to become pregnant can pay a ondudu (medicine man) one cattle for a mud doll child

Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-865, described as Termite mud dolls; native term: okaana konata (child from mud), ounona vomanata (plural); two of the dolls are covered with commercial red oxide instead of with red ochre of the headress, with is obtained from the omuva tree roots; a woman who wished to become pregnant can pay a ondudu (medicine man) one cattle for a mud doll child

Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-864, described as Termite mud dolls; native term: okaana konata (child from mud), ounona vomanata (plural); two of the dolls are covered with commercial red oxide instead of with red ochre of the headress, with is obtained from the omuva tree roots; a woman who wished to become pregnant can pay a ondudu (medicine man) one cattle for a mud doll child

Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-862, described as Termite mud dogs; okambua konata-puppy from mud; made by girls or women