1969.69.6

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Details

ID Number

1969.69.6

Category

Recreational Artifacts

Sub-category

toy

Item Name

doll

Date

1877 - 1900

Materials

leather, unknown; hair, unknown; composition, plaster

Description

composition head, shoulders, and hands. Composition invented in 1877 and is a mixture of blue, sawdust, plaster of Paris, bran; white kid body and feet; body jointed by insets of kid; the arms are light being very small; the front of the body is stamped with a deer or elk and the word hair stuffed in a pale violet ink; the set-in eyes are blown glass and are blue-violet with dark blue iris and rim; the brows and lashes are painted on; the blond, wavy, shoulder-length wig (hair unidentified) has been partially destroyed by moths; wig is fastened to head through hole in top as well as being glued. Wardrobe of doll is 1969.69.1-.5

History

From the Macdonald residence, following the death of Mrs. Macdonald, July 1969.

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subject (Fre)

Y

Subjects

Children / Enfants subject