- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Beaded doll.
- Geographical reference
- Eastern Transvaal near Johannesburg ( Buffel's drift )
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1938
- Date collected
- 1938
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 03/1995
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 100 mm, Height: max 210 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1995.13.1
- Research and responses
For more information on such dolls see Margret Carey, Beads and Beadwork of South Africa (Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1986), p. 57-8.
Search terms: Toy and Game, Figure, Doll Figure
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