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Arabian Doll

Arabian Doll - Doll
Accession #: 784.12
Title: Arabian Doll
Object Type: Doll
Participants:
Physical Description: A doll with a painted papier mâché body and a brown painted bisque socket head that is wired with elastic from arms and legs. It includes a black mohair wig, inset black eyes with no pupils and a red dot in the corner of each eye, and an open mouth with red lips that shows five upper teeth. One eye is larger than the other and it includes applied ears. The arms, torso and legs are made of a rather crude paper mâché and painted brown. There are raised lines on the calves indicating molded shoes. The doll is wearing a short sleeved dress made of coarse material with narrow red and white vertical stripes, two gold beaded loops at the font of the neck and tied at the back of the neck with a narrow blue ribbon. Over the dress, a black silk wrap with both machine and crude hand stitching covers the doll from head to toe. The head is topped with a silk turban and a black narrow strip of material hangs in front of the face acting as a face covering from the nose down.
Description: Like many young well-to-do girls of her time, Helen Campbell (1892-1967) enjoyed collecting dolls representing different countries, like this Arabian doll. Popular fascination with world exploration grew through the 19th century. Wealthy families took Grand Tours of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including the Campbell's visits to Egypt and Europe in 1904 and 1909-1910.
Category: Campbell Collection
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Toy (Recreation)
Geographical Reference: Germany (International->Europe); Campbell House (Washington->Spokane County->Spokane)
Dimensions:
Object H x W 10 x 2 "
Materials/Techniques:
paper mache (Material)
bisque (Material)
Marks/Inscription:
On back of head: "11/0"
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Helen Campbell Powell, 1930

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