Miss Piggy Doll
name: label: designer
content: Henson, Jim
label: distributor
content: NANCO
label: maker
content: NANCO
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This oversized Miss Piggy doll is wearing a hot pink, lime green, yellow, and orange sheer floral print nylon covered floppy hat and matching sarong skirt partially covering a one-piece orange nylon bathing suit, elbow-length hot pink nylon satin gloves, a white plastic pearl choker necklace, and bright orange twill fabric shoes, each decorated with a large hot-pink centered white daisy. This doll was won as a prize in a raffle.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Miss Piggy is a diva pig who believes she is a superstar. She is madly in love with Kermit the Frog and is an expert in karate. Miss Piggy began as “Piggy Lee” on <i>The Tonight Show</i> in 1974 and eventually the “Lee” was dropped so as not to upset Peggy Lee. Miss Piggy then became a major character on <i>The Muppet Show</i>.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Puppetry
label: Subject
content: Consumerism
label: Subject
content: Toys
label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Radio and television broadcasting
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Jim Henson
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Margaret Limehouse
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0387.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0387
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0387.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: doll
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fiber, synthetic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fiber, cellulose (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 ft x 1 1/2 ft x 1 ft; 1.2192 m x .4572 m x .3048 m