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 is blue cloth around a wood frame. Her feet end in white cloth high heeled mules with a solid pink sole. She wears a white slip that had been sewn at the crotch, a white petticoat with white lace trim, and a white floral patterned skirt with a red 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 gray and white plaid stole over her right shoulder. She has blue and blue and clear bead bracelets, and necklace. Her quill fingernails are glued on. She has a very large star-shaped tinfoil and bead earring in her sewn-on right ear, and a white head wrap with a red flower pattern, and lace edging. Her face is nicely formed with red embroidered lips, white and black eyes, and black eyebrows.
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: E435084-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 42 cm
label: Width
content: 30 cm
label: Height
content: 8 cm