1289 – Poppet bamboo and cloth

Physical description:

Poppet made of three sticks of bamboo, with long black wool hair and bead necklace.

Museum classification:

Curses

Size:

295x120x50

Information:

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'In this glass box are a selection of poppet dolls as one finds them up and down the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The string-line figure is not a common type and the one made from bamboo sticks is a strange poppet, being a love doll made by the Egyptian mistress of a Devon- born navy man. A tale with a sad ending 1944. Plymouth.'
Another text by Cecil Williamson reads: Strange figure of bamboo and cloth made in Egypt to ill wish a male. The pins in quantity are concealed within the black ball from which the legs protrude.

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Bamboo, cloth, paint, beads, buttons, coins, pins and string

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'In this glass box are a selection of poppet dolls as one finds them up and down the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The string-line figure is not a common type and the one made from bamboo sticks is a strange poppet, being a love doll made by the Egyptian mistress of a Devon- born navy man. A tale with a sad ending 1944. Plymouth.'
Another text by Cecil Williamson reads: Strange figure of bamboo and cloth made in Egypt to ill wish a male. The pins in quantity are concealed within the black ball from which the legs protrude.