Candomble doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 2010
label: Collection Date
content: 1939
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ruth S. Landes
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ruth S. Landes
notes: label: Notes
content: Woman doll made from black cloth, stuffing unknown, but with a wood skeleton. Her feet end in white cloth high heeled mules with a solid pink sole. She wears a white slip that has been sewn at the crotch, a white petticoat with white lace trim, and a red patterned skirt with a faded blue flounce at the hem. Her blouse is lace, so that the red nipples of her breasts peek through. The blouse has contrasting lace short sleeves. She wears a pink and white check, fringed stole over her right shoulder. She wears 1 red bead bracelet and 1 blue bead bracelet, and a red, blue and clear bead necklace. Her quill fingernails are glued on. She has very large earrings made from tin foil (?) cut into stars with red bead centers within her sewn-on ears, and a tan and white patterned head wrap with pink rickrack edging. Her face is nicely formed with red embroidered lips, white and black eyes, and black eyebrows. She wears the remnants of a relatively large basket on her head.
label: Notes
content: 1 of 4 female Candomble practitioner dolls made for Dr. Landes in Bahia in 1939. From Landes notes, of the set: "4 Black lady dolls, each 16 inches tall, sculptured in cotton, wearing the cult-women's garb from head turban to high-heeled slippers (no sling over the heel), full under-clothes & necklaces, arms held in the cult-women's pose; anatomical details are exquisite: eyes, teeth, nails, breasts, nipples, plump arms, plump legs. Hand-made for me by cult "daughters" in Bahia de todo os Santos, on the terreiro of the cult. Such dolls have not been made since my time; I don't know if they had been made before, but I've never seen such or heard of such.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bahia de Todos os Santos, Bahia, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Afro-Brazilian, Candomble Practitioner
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1048265
label: USNM Number
content: E435082-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 42 cm
label: Width
content: 17 cm
label: Height
content: 9 cm