Tradtional dress doll

NameTraditional dress doll

Artist Artist not recorded

Cultural Region if different than place madeScandinavia

Place madeHardanger, NORWAY, Europe

MediumLeather, wool, birchbark, cotton, paint

DimensionsHeight 14 1/2 x Width 8 x Depth 3 1/2 in. (36.83 x 20.32 x 8.89 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Florence Dibell Bartlett, A.1955.86.30

Object numberA.1955.86.30

Collections

The Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection

DescriptionThis grandmother doll has a leather face and hands. The face is painted. Her white wool hair is in a braided bun. She wears a black wool jacket over a white blouse, striped cotton skirt, blue plaid cotton apron, red stockings, cream cotton bloomers and petticoat. On her back she wears a birchbark backpack.