Small Ndebele Dolls
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- Title Small Ndebele Dolls
- Category Toy
- Medium Mixed Media
- Dimensions 3.25"h x 1"w x 1.25"d
- Year Completed Undated
- Description Part of the Yoder toy collection.
- Notes Ndebele Dolls typically consist of a torso, without legs or arms, heavily adorned in beadwork. Given to girls, play consists of an imitation of adult life. Special significance is given to how the girls handle the dolls; sometimes the dolls are made to fight and the owner of the doll which breaks will be scolded for not turning out to be a good wife. Married Ndebele women wear neck rings as part of traditional dress. These rings called 'dzilla' can be seen on the dolls.* *Hechter-Schulz, Karl. “Fertility Dolls. Cults of the Nguni and Other Tribes of the Southern Bantu.” Anthropos 61, no. 3/6 (1966): 516–28.
- Credit John and Janet Yoder Collection
- Location Lindaman Reception Display Case
- Accession Number 2022.0202.a-b
- Status Checked Out
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