Ceramic doll, female
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 1981 to 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Ceramic figurine in the shape of an human. The unpolished figurine has been painted with brown lines and dots.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: Low-fired clay, painted with (??) and anatto pigment after firing. Ceramic doll. This is a girl's toy. The Wauja say they don't last long, and that women make them for their girls out of any left-over clay when they are making ceramic pots. Painted with all the features of an ideal woman: feminine hair, cheek chevrons, a shell collar, painted legs and buttocks, and even tattoos of high chiefly rank on the upper arm (on the deltoids). There is also a faint trace of faded anatto pigment on the forehead. (Note, however, that there is no pubic ornament, which such a beautifully put-together woman surely would be wearing.) Made by Uhekualu, young married woman, eldest daughter of Apaipualu, Walakuyawatumpa's eldest daughter. [See p. 16 of Artifacts book].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Piyulaga village, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wauja (Waurá)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435301-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 20.5 cm
label: Width
content: 13.5 cm
label: Height
content: 4.5 cm