Character doll
Vivid Imagination Ltd
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic doll dressed in textile material
Measurements
290 mm (Height)
Place of origin
China
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672595.2
Summary
A plastic Pocahontas character doll, one of the Princess series of dolls manufactured by Vivid Imaginations for Disney. The doll is female and white with very long dark hair. She has a piece of brown textile material around her neck with a pink jewel on the front. She is dressed in a beige buckskin style dress with a brown textile belt around the waist and frills around the chest. Her right arm is decorated with a brown tattoo style mark around the bicep and she is holding a brown plastic tree twig with two green leaves in her right hand. The doll is secured to the box with plastic fasteners and at the time of cataloguing (September 2023) does not appear to have ever been removed from the box.
Provenance
Doll manufactured by Vivid Imaginations Ltd. for Disney. Purchased by the National Trust Museum of Childhood via ebay in September 2020 as part of the Collecting Cultures Exploring Childhoods project.
Makers and roles
Vivid Imagination Ltd, manufacturer