Paddle dolls
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Jerarquía
Visual and Verbal Communication (Hierarchy Name) > Visual Works (Hierarchy Name) > visual works > <visual works by material or technique> > sculpture (visual work) > <sculpture by subject type> > statues > figurines > dolls
Descripción
Dolls found in ancient Egyptian graves, typically carved out of flat pieces of wood, roughly in the shape of a paddle, and decorated with paint and hairmade of strips of clay or wooden beads. Their function may have been as toys but also as protective figures for the deceased in the afterlife.
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Otros términos
- peddelpoppen [nl]
- paddle doll [en]
- dolls, paddle [en]