Costume doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1930 - circa 1959
Materials
Wooded doll
Measurements
160 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658960
Summary
An early to mid-20th century national costume doll representing a Samoyedic person. The doll with a stuffed and moulded face covered in a jersey fabric and with painted facial features. The stuffed body with jointed arms and carved wooden legs. The doll wears a light brown long-sleeved and hooded garment, with red thread at the neck and a band of red fabric at the hem. Beneath this the doll wears a pair of blue, brown and black checked knee breeches. Costume dolls representing people of different nationalities in their local dress have been made since the mid-19th century. As global travel expanded ‘world’ dolls were produced as tourist souvenirs as well as children’s toys. They appear in a variety of media, from paper to porcelain, polymer to plastic. Produced to be instantly recognisable and collectible, ‘world’ dolls can portray a stereotypical view of peoples and cultural identities.
Provenance
One doll from a collection of costume dolls donated by Mr R.T. Macfarlane in 1976.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the breeches: 'Foreign/Made/2984(?) A SAMOIED'