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Selu is the Cherokee word for maize/corn, but it was also originally the name of a goddess-type woman whose body was made of corn. Selu sacrificed her life so that the corn plant could exist and feed the people. Thus the plant was named after her. I created this figure with large breasts as a mother who has nursed and raised a family would have, her clothing is a wrapping of corn leaves and she wears a traditional Cherokee style gorget with a corn ear design suspended from her neck on copper links. There is also a long tradition of dolls not having faces, but I also didn’t want her facial features to exclude anyone or reinforce existing Native American stereotypes.