Bead and wire doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic-headed doll
Measurements
80 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669907
Summary
A doll's house size doll made from wire and made to represent a black woman. Her head is made from a black painted wooden bead and has painted facial details. On top of her head she wears a blue felt turban type head-dress and clear plastic bead earrings. She has a wire body, arms and legs bound in black embroidery thread. She wears a yellow felt top with short sleeves, pink felt sash and wide green felt skirt.