Doll
- Museum number:
- 5-11707
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050011707
- Alternate number:
- B-1709 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
- Description:
- doll; carved wood, flat and rectangular, pointed at one end, upper portion of a human figure incised on one side; 25 cm long, 7.5 cm wide.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Badagry, Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba; Purchased in Badagry market
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1942
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Dolls (figurines)
- Function:
- 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Accession date:
- 1971 and December 15, 1972
- Context of use:
- according to Berta Bascom this genre of doll would be carried on a Yoruba child's back in imitation of the way mothers carry babies.
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 25 centimeters and width 7.5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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