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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10026049, member: 8267&quot;]The people who make these dolls are the Dowayo (also called Namji, Namshi, and other variations), living in northern Cameroon. They are not a particularly well known group. Some of the earliest fieldwork among them was done by British anthropologist Nigel Barley in the early 1980s. He published an account of his work there which he titled <b><i>The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut. </i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p>Here is a doll in the British Museum which was collected by Barley in 1984 -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]503509[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1984-13-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1984-13-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1984-13-1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is not easy to find examples with known histories to try to construct a chronology of styles. There may also have been variations between different subgroups, which are not well documented. Most of the ones I have found online are vaguely dated to the mid-20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one in the Smithsonian, quite different in style -</p><p><a href="https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmafa_2010-21-7?fq=data_source%3A%22National+Museum+of+African+Art%22&amp;fq=online_media_type%3A%22Images%22&amp;fq=place%3A%22Cameroon%22&amp;fq=online_visual_material%3Atrue&amp;q=doll&amp;record=2&amp;hlterm=doll&amp;inline=true" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmafa_2010-21-7?fq=data_source%3A%22National+Museum+of+African+Art%22&amp;fq=online_media_type%3A%22Images%22&amp;fq=place%3A%22Cameroon%22&amp;fq=online_visual_material%3Atrue&amp;q=doll&amp;record=2&amp;hlterm=doll&amp;inline=true" rel="nofollow">https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmafa_2010-21-7?fq=data_source:&quot;National+Museum+of+African+Art&quot;&amp;fq=online_media_type:&quot;Images&quot;&amp;fq=place:&quot;Cameroon&quot;&amp;fq=online_visual_material:true&amp;q=doll&amp;record=2&amp;hlterm=doll&amp;inline=true</a></p><p><br /></p><p>3 in the Fowler Museum (UCLA) were collected in the early 1980s -</p><p><a href="https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US" rel="nofollow">https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US</a></p><p><a href="https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US" rel="nofollow">https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US</a></p><p><a href="https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US" rel="nofollow">https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one, sold by WorldofBacara, looks similar to yours but they do not suggest a date -</p><p><a href="https://www.worldofbacara.com/listing/201282933/doll-hand-carved-wood-beaded-namji" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worldofbacara.com/listing/201282933/doll-hand-carved-wood-beaded-namji" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldofbacara.com/listing/201282933/doll-hand-carved-wood-beaded-namji</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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