Peg doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
115 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665455
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, depicting a farmer's wife. The doll has painted facial features and brown wool hair. She has flesh coloured stiffened jersey material hands and is wearing a white fabric headdress trimmed with lace, a blue fabric dress and green fabric apron. The doll stands on a cork base with two plastic brown coloured cockerels. The peg doll appears to be handmade.