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The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls by Debbie Behan Garrett, Hobby House Press, 2003; Black Dolls Proud, Bold & Beautiful by Nayda Rondon, Reverie Press, 2004; Collectible African American Dolls Identification and Values by Yvonne Ellis, Collector Books, 2008; Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating Collecting and ...
The Museum offers lectures on the history of black dolls, and the black doll as a teaching tool. It also offers workshops in paper doll making and clothes pin doll making for children. Cloth doll making workshops for adults are also available. Additionally, the museum is an informal adult doll club for doll collectors and makers. [7] [8] The ...
The Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art was an art museum in Bellevue, Washington, USA. It featured a permanent collection of over 1,200 dolls . The museum was founded in 1992 and won a number of awards for its collection, including the Jumeau Trophy for best private doll museum in the world.
Named for the daughter of Abraham Katz, the head of the company, [3] the doll's special feature was simulating urination after a fluid was poured into her open mouth. [1] Betsy Wetsy was also one of the first major dolls to be produced in African American versions.
She was also on the founding board of directors for the DuSable Museum of African American History. Ormes was a passionate doll collector, with 150 antique and modern dolls in her collection, and she was active in Guys and Gals Funtastique Doll Club, a United Federation of Doll Clubs chapter in Chicago.
They are traditionally American cloth folk dolls which fuse a white girl child with a black girl child at the hips. Later dolls were sometimes a white girl child with a black mammy figure. Precise facts about their origins are rare, but as late as the 1950s, "Topsy and Eva" dolls were marketed by Sears , Montgomery Ward , and The Babyland Rag ...
The practice of sticking pins in voodoo dolls have been associated with African-American Hoodoo folk magic. Voodoo dolls are not a feature of Haitian Vodou religion, but have been portrayed as such in popular culture, and stereotypical voodoo dolls are sold to tourists in Haiti.
Long before the Shani line debuted in stores, Mattel had already been making African American fashion dolls for 24 years, with their first black doll being the Colored Francie doll from 1967, and then Barbie's friends Christie and Julia (the latter being based on the hit TV series of the same name), released in 1968 and 1969 respectively. They ...