Beadwork doll. The conical, fabric covered body is covered with glass seed beads to form horizontal rows of
lozenges and triangles. The base is covered with larger white beads and there is a ‘skirt’ of blue beads around the base edge. The head is given hair of parallel lines of black beads. Bead colours are white, brown, red, black, yellow, ochre, pink and blue. This doll may have a mealie cob core.
B-23 Doll
Object Number
JL-B-23
Artist
Date produced
Unknown
Attribution/location
Medium/materials
Dimensions (cms)
20.7 x 5.8 x 5.7
Description
Provenance
Unknown
Additional information
Classification
Digital rights
Brenthurst Library





