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 pink and white striped cloth high heeled mules with a solid pink sole and a pink string strap. She wears a white slip that had been sewn at the crotch, a white petticoat with white lace trim, and a red patterned skirt with 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 blue and white plaid stole over her right shoulder. The neck, what can be seen of it, is edged with decorations made from red, white and blue silk (?) cording wound into discs, and pink sequins. She wears red and black bead bracelets, and necklace. Her quill fingernails are glued on. She has very large 4 bead earrings in her sewn-on ears, and a pink patterned head wrap with lace edging. Her face is nicely formed with red embroidered lips, white and black eyes, and black eyebrows. She wears 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: 22 Jan 2020
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: E435081-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 46 cm
label: Width
content: 24 cm
label: Height
content: 9 cm