Sanctuary wrote:
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Resonox wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Where did this idea that these figures were 'Goddess's' spring from does anybody know?
Maybe in our remote future when all we know or think we've known is no more....futuristic archaeologists (or visitors from some distant planet) will find Barbie dolls and assume we venerated them too.
At last years brilliant "Unearthed" exhibition of figurines at the Sainsubry centre Norwich ,Barbie was one of the first exhibits .
The didn't have a Cabbage Patch Doll there as well did they? :-)
No ,but there was some lego iirc and 20 th C Japanese dolls all to complement the classic Japanese , Balkan ,Macedonian and Egyptian figurines I never imagined I would ever would see in the " flesh " . Douglass Bailey was the driving force and his book on figurines is minor classic .
