cornhusk; three pieces of different patterned fabric; black yarn; black felt; hide thong; commercial thread; beads of varying sizes, shapes, brown, dark green, light green, orange, yellow, light blue, red, white, translucent; two feathers, dyed orange and yellow; glue.

These dolls are made from cornhusk and are wrapped in different patterned fabrics. The cornhusk leaves form the dress of the mother figure and over her shoulders she wears a shawl made of floral patterned fabric. Her hair is made of black yarn and is secured with clear glue. She wears a bracelet and necklace of strands of multicoloured beads, a tied headband made of a hide thong that is secured with clear glue, and two beads with two feathers that are secured to her hair with clear glue. Her hands are held together with commercial thread and in her arms, likely secured with glue, she holds a baby made of cornhusk wrapped with two pieces of different patterned fabrics and black felt.

Mother and child

Museum documentation

Collected by Pieter Hovens during a field trip in 1996