Costume doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1950 - circa 1976
Materials
Composition headed doll
Measurements
490 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658917
Summary
A mid-20th century female national costume doll (also known as souvenir, world costume, tourist and foreign travel dolls) with composition head and stuffed body and limbs. The head with painted facial details, blue glass eyes and a red painted 'open' mouth showing top two teeth. The iris on the right eye is worn away leaving only the blue outline. The doll wears a floral-printed cotton cap with four multi-coloured woollen pompoms and four similar pompoms at the back; earrings made from small round metal beads strung on embroidery thread; a green cotton bodice with large puff sleeves; two decorative waistbands and a cotton skirt made up of bands of fabric with machine-embroidered decoration in orange, green, yellow and red. Underneath a white cotton petticoat trimmed with white lace and white cotton knickers.
Provenance
One doll from a collection of costume dolls donated by Mr R.T. Macfarlane in 1976.