Doll

Museum number:
9-13044
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3242
Description:
A doll representing a male woodcutter; a cotton cloth body with a white gauze blouse and pants and a yellow and white vest, with a tin hatchet in the right hand and a bundle of twigs in the left hand, and painted ceramic head and feet, with a maroon cotton turban. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height 21.5 cm.
Donor:
Elizabeth McCown Langstroth
Collection place:
Pune, Maharashtra State, India
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1976
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Doll, accession number 9-13044, described as A doll representing a male woodcutter; a cotton cloth body with a white gauze blouse and pants and a yellow and white vest, with a tin hatchet in the right hand and a bundle of twigs in the left hand, and painted ceramic head and feet, with a maroon cotton turban. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height 21.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Doll, accession number 9-13044, described as A doll representing a male woodcutter; a cotton cloth body with a white gauze blouse and pants and a yellow and white vest, with a tin hatchet in the right hand and a bundle of twigs in the left hand, and painted ceramic head and feet, with a maroon cotton turban. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height 21.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Doll, accession number 9-13044, described as A doll representing a male woodcutter; a cotton cloth body with a white gauze blouse and pants and a yellow and white vest, with a tin hatchet in the right hand and a bundle of twigs in the left hand, and painted ceramic head and feet, with a maroon cotton turban. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height 21.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Doll, accession number 9-13044, described as A doll representing a male woodcutter; a cotton cloth body with a white gauze blouse and pants and a yellow and white vest, with a tin hatchet in the right hand and a bundle of twigs in the left hand, and painted ceramic head and feet, with a maroon cotton turban. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height 21.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Doll, accession number 9-13044, described as A doll representing a male woodcutter; a cotton cloth body with a white gauze blouse and pants and a yellow and white vest, with a tin hatchet in the right hand and a bundle of twigs in the left hand, and painted ceramic head and feet, with a maroon cotton turban. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height 21.5 cm.

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