Female Doll
name: label: Collector
content: M. Arnoldi
label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: African Region
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: 1992
label: Notes
content: A female fabric doll from Senegal wearing brightly colored clothes. Her dress is made from a number of different pieces of dyed cloth sewn together and she wears a tall hat of similar material. She is wearing the colorful patchwork clothing associated with Bay Fall members of the Mouride Sufi Islamic sect which originated in Senegal. Her face is stitched with cotton thread and she wears gold colored plastic jewelry. On her back there is the head of a baby wrapped into her clothes, with one of her hands positioned to support it. The doll's body is made of a wire frame padded and covered with fabric. She is one of a pair with a matching male doll (400659).
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Nov 2023
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Africa, Senegal
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
culture: label: Culture
content: Mouride
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400658
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Wire, Fabric, Plastic