Dolls

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Mpondo Doll

Dumb-bell shaped doll, made out of thatching grass bound together with small gourd for a head and a big gourd as a base. Beads, buttons and cotton used to accessorise the doll as a woman.

African Ritual Dolls

Dark wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

Dark wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

Brown wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

Brown wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

Brown wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

Brown wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

Dark wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

White wooden carved African ritual doll.

African Ritual Dolls

Dark brown wooden African ritual doll.

African Ritual Doll

Black wooden carved African ritual doll.

Fertility Doll: Isangoma

Isangoma fertility doll.

Fertility Doll: Ndebele

Ndebele fertility doll.

Dolls

Dolls made by women from Ndwedwe.

Beaded dolls

Beaded dolls (Zulu)

Beaded dolls

Zulu beaded dolls.

Dolls - ML Sultan

Doll made by students at the Fine arts department - ML Sultan

Doll-maker and Sangoma Thembi Mchunu from Ndwedwe

Doll-maker and sangoma Thembi Mchunu from Ndwedwe, photographed by Terry-Ann Stevenson in 1989.

Three children sitting outdoors, in front of corrugated-iron sheeting, playing with a toy

 

Caption for photograph: Dancing Doll

Description: Early twentieth-century.  One of the children is playing with a 'dancing doll' (or 'jig doll'), a loose-limbed puppet attached to string and tied to the toes of the child.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

Young woman with three small children

 

Description: Early twentieth-century.  One of the children is carrying a doll on her back.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 28

 

 

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