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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Sudanese maternity doll.
Part of the Edward Lovett collection of dolls
Round brown clay head, featureless with ring and chain attached to rudimentary nose, and long dread locks of plaited string. Stick body with bulbous body of blue strips of cloth over padding, bound with string. Clay breasts, arms cloth bound and tightly stuffed, clay foot. Lavishly ornamented with plaited threads, strings of beads and seeds, and metal amulet discs. Necklet of three rings of yellow metal and one of beads. wearing dirty white cotton skirt with short red pattern overskirt, on top of faded blue cotton underskirt.
