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Second prize - cloth doll catagory Canadian Doll Artist Association conference May 2000.
This doll sits about 16 inches high and is made of 100% cotton printed tat has been overdyed with tea. Her hair is flax, her ornaments are amber, shell, turquoise, bone, horn and chicken feathers.
Western Europe, 20,000 BC. A priestess of Freyja, the great goddess, reads the bones for her tribe. She is a tribal elder in a culture that is matrilineal and honours female deities. Her full figure illuminates the tribes success in gathering and hunting, her fringed and beaded skirt proclaims her status as a mother.. She wears a necklace containing amber - the Goddess tears. The feather capelet symbolizes her shamanic ability to fly and shape change. She has painted herself with Her symbols of fertility and abundance.
This doll was inspired by the books of Marija Gimbutas and Ralph Metzner among many. Also by the wonderfull large women in my practice especially Marta Zinkevitch who teachs Yoga for Round Bodies and who was the model for this doll. After seeing so many skiny dolls I wanted to make a doll that showed full bodied women in a position of authority and dignity. As we age our bodies become rounder even those of us who were Barbie girls.