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Grandmother doll
Grandmother doll
Grandmother doll
DepartmentEurope

Grandmother doll

NameDoll
Artist Artist not recorded
Cultural Region if different than place madeScandinavia
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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