Doll
- Object Name:
- Doll
- Object ID:
- 1959.068.065.3
- Description:
- Rag doll, girl. Long whitish hair probably made from strips of supple fur-bearing hide; several pieces pinned to back of stuffed cloth head shape. Piece of fine off-white textile stretched around sides and partway down neck of front of head. Face loosely printed on front with pink cheeks, red lips, brown and red nose and nostrils, eyes with pupils and eyelashes. Head attached loosely to body piece. Textile-covered arms attached to short cylindrical thorax. Definite waist section that flares to small hip area. Below hips, articulated legs sewn with knee joint. Definite foot covered with red, woven, textile "shoe" to bottom section below knee. Off-white small lace collar below face on neck. 1.5" wide scarf on top of that, dark brown with applied black, cylindrical glass beads. Clusters of beads in groups of five rows and five columns in center of band. Bead edging on one side and bead edging with dangles on opposite side. With hanging portions on bottom edge, beads form net made up of triangular groups that meet at a circular bead and long strings of beads hanging below them. Long strings ~15 beads long. This dark band of these beads extends around back of figure and overlaps with itself on front. Plaid underneath portion of beads, loosely defined as blouse that wraps around figure. Some black thread fringe at its bottom edge. More of white lace-like cloth extends below plaid piece on front. Small fine mesh background and series of white dots in diamond-shape pattern in lace-like cloth. Long brown skirt underneath all of the above with dark brown cloth background with dark checkered pattern woven into skirt. Shorter black and brown abstract pattern slip or underdress under skirt a little shorter and not as broad as skirt.
- Material:
- Textile
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-15 W-9 D-2.5 inches
- Provenance:
- All materials from the attic of the Burpee homestead in New London, NH, a neighbor of the donor. The Burpee family has been in this home since 1817.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Susan Colgate Cleveland
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