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Samburu Doll with Hide Sandals
The Samburu are a Nilotic, semi-nomadic pastoral people inhabiting north-central Kenya. They live in dry country beyond the norhwestern slopes of Mt Kenya. Samburu dolls were traditionally carved for their daughters by fathers, with adornments fabricated by mothers and older sisters. This doll was collected some time in the 1960s or 70s by Sherri Hunt, an Anglo-South African who for many years ran a popular modern art gallery in Nairobi. It is an older example of a used Samburu doll with ample signs of indigenous use. It has beaded eyes and neckrings, multiple beaded leather skirts and, most unusual, hide sandals. It is extremely dry and missing one arm. Mounted on a custom base.
9.5″
