Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009

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Doll, (hau pilu)

Image: 13.3 x 4.4 x 73.7 cm (5 1/4 x 1 3/4 x 29 in.)
White, red, blue, yellow, and green seed-beads, raffia probably wrapped around cotton core, cowrie shells, leather

Classification: Figurines

Culture: African, Cameroon, Kirdi peoples

Country of Origin, for Customs: Cameroon

Accession number: 2008.1508

Description: This doll is a highly stylized human figure, with two round-disk-shaped heads at the top and round legs/feet protruding at the bottom

Provenance/Ownership History: About 2002, acquired from an African merchant, New York by Professor Dwight B. Heath, Providence, RI; 2008, gift of Dwight B. Heath and Anne C. Heath in memory of their son David to the MFA. (Accession date: December 17, 2008)

Gift of Dwight B. and Anna Cooper Heath, in memory of their son, David B. Heath