Kpelle Doll
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- Title Kpelle Doll
- Category Toy
- Medium Products from the raffia palm
- Dimensions 10"h x 1.75"w x 5"d
- Year Completed Undated
- Notes Girls in the Kpelle ethnic group from Suokoko Liberia are expected to marry and bear children. Dolls such as this are used to prepare the girls for adulthood, particularly dolls that represent the ideal female. The dolls set an expectation for how girls should appear and act upon reaching adulthood. Dolls in Kpelle can also idealize motherhood, portraying mothers with babies, the baby often being carried on her back.
- Artist Liberia and Ivory Coast
- Credit John and Janet Yoder Collection
- Location Library Art Storage I7
- Accession Number 2022.0178
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