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Description: | HRH / Duchess / of / Gloucester
Doll in native costume. The doll is wearing a blue dress with a green section at the front with gold bands and sequins. Under the dress is a white shirt, red cuffs, a green apron with embroidery and band decoration and a red underskirt with bands of decoration at the bottom. On the chest of the figure are gold coins. There is also a necklace and earrings made of beads, black, leather shoes and a pale green headscarf. The figure is carrying a basket on her head that has lace over it and contains squares of different coloured material.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1986.84
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1986.84
caption: Detail view of inside the basket of Horniman Museum object no 1986.84 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | cotton dolls cotton (textile) synthetic fiber textile basketry plant material synthetic fibre metal textiles velvet leather dolls (pastimes: toys) | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-134391 | Go to resource |
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