Ashanti fertility doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 2017
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ann Dunham
label: Donor Name
content: Maya Soetoro-Ng
notes: label: Notes
content: Wooden figure. Large, flat, round head with exaggerated forehead. Short arms, no legs.
label: Notes
content: Bron Solyom's notes (page 4, see accession file): "Ashanti fertility doll". "Dunham visited Kenya for 3 days in 1984. Possibly she acquired these souvenirs at that time". However, these sculptures are more typically from Ghana.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 May 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ghana (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ashanti (Asante) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077623
label: USNM Number
content: E434822-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 24 cm
label: Width
content: 13 cm
label: Height
content: 3 cm