Indigenous Boy & Girl Mini Dolls 16cm - Set of 2 Bush Melon Design

Product Size 16cm

SKU: 137170

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A contemporary set of 2 mini Aboriginal dolls wearing Indigenous designed clothing by Aboriginal artists. Each design has its own cultural meaning. Bush Melon is an original artwork by Betty Club Mbitjana. For thousands of years, Aboriginal people were hunters and gatherers living entirely on the abundant wild food also known as bush tucker. Nowadays many of them still eat this traditional food but they no longer rely on it for survival. The Bush Melon is a sweet bush tucker that once grew in abundance at Utopia. As well as providing water, these melons are a good source of some essential vitamins and minerals. Betty’s mother and other women would gather the fruit to be eaten at once, or to be stored for times when bush tucker was scarce. The Aboriginal iconography in this work refers to awelye (body paint) associated with the women’s ceremony and the bush melon. The U-shape with lines represents women and other lines represent body painting markings. The large circles represent a ceremonial site and small circles represent the bush melon itself. The dotted areas are seed pods from the bush melon. As these Aboriginal dolls are handmade, the features, fabrics and details may vary.

A contemporary range of mini Aboriginal dolls wearing vibrant Indigenous clothes designed in collaboration with a social enterprise helping disadvantaged women. Each colourful design has its own cultural meaning. Each doll is handmade and one of a kind, using a selection of materials typically tricot and cottons. Recycled poly fibre fill is used inside the doll's. All sets contain a 16cm boy & girl, a perfect sized doll for little hands to play with. These doll's can be used alongside Indigenous story books, cross cultural sessions, child led pretend play and as wonderful Indigenous displays.

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