Peg doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
120 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665465
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, depicting a Welsh lady with painted facial features, brown wool hair and pink stiffened jersey fingers. She is wearing a black high felt hat with ace trim. She has a white bodice, a red wool skirt, a brown and white cotton apron and a red, black and white shawl. Her sleeves have lace trim. In her right hand a bunch of leeks. There is a vilene underskirt.