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Grandmother doll
Grandmother doll
Grandmother doll
DepartmentEurope

Grandmother doll

NameDoll
Artist Artist Not Recorded
Place madeHardanger, NORWAY, Europe
MediumLeather, wool, birchbark, cotton, paint
Dimensions14 9/16 × 7 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (37 × 19 × 8 cm)
Credit Lineuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Florence Dibell Bartlett, MA.1955.86.30
Object numberA.1955.86.30
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DescriptionThis grandmother doll has a leather face and hands. The face is painted. Her wool hair is in a braided bun. She wears a black wool jacket, striped cotton skirt, blue plaid cotton apron, red stockings, cream cotton bloomers and petticoat. On her back she wears a birchbark backpack.
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