Doll

Object Name:

Doll

Object ID:

1966.041.32

Description:

"Old Mother Hubbard" doll. Pen wipe. Textile and wood. Three black and or dark blue, old layers of oval textile in shape back on each other. Red oval with paint edges, slightly smaller that base pieces. Sitting on that, figure group of people in shoe. Shoe 2.5" long and slightly over inch wide. Group ~1.9" high. Shoe brown, textile, flat with some worn decoration around opening at top. Green remnant at ribbon at front of opening. Inside shoe, facing forward, adult figure at back with six, small figures in front. Roughly carved head for adult figure, dark hair, two shiny, dark eyes. Slightly red lips. Reddish cheeks. Wearing dark brown costume wrapped around. Deteriorated tan textile wrap on top of figure, like a big scarf, wrapped around and tucked into shoe. Carved heads with dark hair to small figures in front of adult. Some modeling of hair on some of smaller figures. Simplistic faces. Bodies consist of something firm underneath with thin textile wrapped around it. Some additional wrapping with thread to create waist. Somehow attached to each other, sitting in shoe. In front of shoe inside, some type of wadding with textile to give front of shoe full shape. Little figures slightly askew as is adult. Some random, dark patches on red textile. On bottom, pinned paper note with blue ink: "Very old when given to MRIE L / Busiel in 1887".

Material:

Wood
Textile

Dimensions:

H-1.8 W-2.4 L-3.8 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Marie Busiel Plummer

People:

Plummer, Marie L. (1880-1971)