DOLL
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- DOPEY DOLL
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- CORK, COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970032000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- DOPEY DOLL
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- CORK, COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 34.7
- Width
- 16.2
- Description
- PRESSED CORK HEAD WITH SKIN COLOUR PAINT ON SURFACE, BLUE EYES, RED LIPS AND FLANNEL YELLOW HAT STAPLED TO BACK OF THE HEAD. HAT IS STAMPED ON FRONT,"DOPEY" IN BLACK. BRIM IS TEARING AT THE SEAM. BODY IS TAN CANVAS STUFFED WITH UNKNOWN MATERIALS, BUT POSSIBLY COTTON AND WOOL. MISSING SHIRT AND ARM. WEARING PURPLE PANTS, AND HAS BLACK SHOES. HEAD HAS HOLE BENEATH HAT AND HEAD SURFACE IS WORN AND FADED. OTHER SEAMS APPEAR STRONG, BUT YELLOW TAGGED FOR CAUTION. MARKED ON BACK OF NECK "MFG BY RELIABLE TOY CO. CANADA."
- Subjects
- TOY
- Historical Association
- LEISURE
- History
- HISTORY UNKNOWN EXCEPT WAS AN ORIGINAL DOLL FROM RELEASE OF SNOW WHITE, AND WAS DISCOVERED IN A TRUNK BELONGING TO THE DONOR'S FATHER AFTER HIS DEATH. DONOR GREW UP IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA. HER FATHER, WILLIAM WESLEY MCCLELLAN WAS ORIGINALLY FROM NOVA SCOTIA. RESEARCH SHOWS THE DOLL WAS MADE IN 1940.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970032000
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-02
- Collection
- Museum
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