doll (pastimes: toys); hats (clothing: headwear)

Male doll with a wooden body and articulated arms and legs. The figure has a painted head and hands and is wearing a black felt coat, a shirt, a pair of cream long johns with a white plastic button, a pair or tweed trousers, a pair of green socks and the remains of a black shoe on his left foot. The figure has two hats. One hat is made of a green-brown felt with brown stitching. The hat has a wide brim and the top has lost some of the stitching. The other hat is made from a black material and has a black ribbon tied around it with a bow.
label: black with white type

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
27.6.49/1
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 540 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
textile; wood; felt; paint; copper alloy; plastic; wool; thread
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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