Board game
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard and printed paper
Measurements
25 x 240 mm; 150 mm (Length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662462.2
Summary
The box for a board game entitled 'Enid Blyton's Little Noddy Leapfrog Game'. The box is in two parts, made of cardboard. The lid is covered in paper which is colour-printed with illustrations of Noddy and other characters, including a 'golliwog'. Note on golliwogs: The Golliwogg character was created by American-born illustrator Florence Upton, in a series of British children’s books which she co-authored with her mother Bertha Upton. The character was not copyrighted, and ‘golliwog’ dolls based on it became popular toys in Britain from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Upton based the character on a doll from her own childhood which was bought in the United States in the 1880s and was likely to have been inspired by minstrel entertainers who performed in blackface. The dolls share many characteristics associated with minstrelsy and racist caricatures of Black people, including their bowties, tailcoats, and exaggerated hair, lips and painted black skin. While the Uptons' Golliwogg was a sympathetic character, Enid Blyton's golliwogs were characterised as mischievous and malevolent.