Wooden doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
235 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 664423
Summary
A Grodnertal wooden doll with painted facial features (possibly repainted). Her dark brown hair, possibly real, is plaited and arranged in large loops on either side of her face. She is wearing a tiered skirt made up of folded paper sections coloured pink, green, yellow, orange, black, brown and blue. Inside the folded sections are 'fortunes' hand written in ink. She also wears a red silk blouse with cream lace cuffs and a hat. The hat is made of cotton with a red, blue and cream floral pattern, decorated with a beige fringe and a white feather.