Digital photograph of a gourd, bead, and vegetal fibre doll; figure, museum number Af1954,+23.3553, donated to the British Museum by the Wellcome Ins…
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Description
"Figure (doll?) with vegetal fibre body, gourd head, cloth-covered arms and beadwork fingers." Measures: 28.5cm (H) x 10cm (W) x 6cm (D) [Measurements taken from the British Museum online collections database]
This doll; figure was found or acquired in South Africa and donated to the British Museum by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1954