Acknowledgements

Participating as a pilot partner for the PURE3D-project was a way to view and research our collection in a different way. It provided new and interesting information about this object. It also makes this object more understandable and accessible to a wider audience. 

Acknowledgements: 

• 3D model: Kelly Gillikin Schoueri (P3D)
• Audio: James Hannan (VBVD)
• Author: Hilde Janssen (VBVD)
• Research: Sonja Wijs (anthropologist, researcher and heritage specialist) 
  

Team PURE3D: 

• Kelly Gillikin Schoueri
• Costas Papadopoulos
• Susan Schreibman
• Sohini Mallick
• Alicia Walsh
  

Other links: 

• PURE3D: https://pure3d.eu/
• Museum van Bommel van Dam: https://www.vanbommelvandam.nl/
• Online collection museum: https://www.vanbommelvandam.nl/collectie/
• Further VBVD Voyager Editions: https://pure3d.eu/about/pilot-projects/museum-van-bommel-van-dam 
  

Further reading material: 

• Bull, Bernard G.S., Wednesday's child : Akuaba:the Ashanti fertility doll. Kumasi, 1994
• Cameron, Elisabeth Lynn  and Doran H. Ross, Isn't s/he a doll? : play and ritual in African sculpture. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1996
• Cole, Herbert M., Maternity. Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa. Mercatorfonds, Brussels, 2017
• Dagan, Esther A., African dolls for play and magic. Galerie Amrad African Arts, Montréal, 1990
• Doorn, Ron van, Herbert M. Cole, Akua'ba Asante. Wednesday Child, Publisher Akuaron, 2021 (zie ook: Akua'ba Asante preview | akuaba-ron)
• McLeod, M.D., The Asante. British Museum Publications, London, 1981 (reprint 1984)
• Murdock, G.P., Africa. Its Peoples and Their Culture History, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, 1959