Summary

Bouquet of flowers constructed from found material, including wool and sweet packages. It was made by a seven year old girl from the Ikenwen village, in 2005, and was designed to be used in a play (doll's) house.

It is part of a group of traditional toys collected in the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco by Belgium Socio-cultural Anthropologist Jean-Pierre Rossie, during the period 2005-2011.

Physical Description

Bouquet of flowers constructed from found material. The base of the bouquet is a cardboard tea box printed in red, yellow and brown tones, with extensive text in English and (probably) Arabic. The bouquet 'stem' is wrapped in maroon wool, opening to 'spray' at top. The 'leaves' on the 'stem' are made from yellow and brown sweet wrappers.

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