Doll; small stick with piece of brown, green, yellow and white cloth wrapped around one side and piece of wax with small strip of same cloth at other end. “Dolls” - made by women for young girls -- wax part represents hair (also used for “breast” cloth is doll’s clothes, and top strip of cloth or net is head covering. Height 12 cm. Width 3 cm. (Female Doll)
Collection place:
Basuba, Kenya
Culture or time period:
Aweer people
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines)
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children