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Description: | Collected by the donor's aunt, who was a medical missionary in China for over fifty years.
Schoolmaster doll with head, forearms and boots of earthenware. Wearing a light blue pattern-woven cloth tunic over white vest, blue silk trousers tied above the boots with plaited cord. Silk indigo-dyed coat with round yellow bead fasteners and a strip of multi-coloured material sewn on either side of the central front opening. Face has a goatee and moustache and a pair of white metal glasses; round black hat with red cord trimmings, and a single plait at the back, made of human hair. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | silk white metal bead dolls textiles earthenware human hair string puppets Toys and games Family and Home dolls (pastimes: toys) textile | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-106964 | Go to resource |
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