Golliwog

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Title

Golliwog

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This doll was on display in Dorothy Clay’s Whanganui home in the 1960s. While her grandchildren were sometimes allowed to take the waistcoat on and off the doll, it was mainly for looking at, not for playing with. The doll is in the style of a ‘golliwog,’ a fictional black character created by Florence Kate Upton in her 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg. Golliwogs were a popular children’s toy in New Zealand as elsewhere in the first half of the twentieth century, bu...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1962

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1470631

Related subjects

Toys / fur / cotton / felt / synthetic fibre / wool / stuffed toys / cloth dolls / New Zealand / Sue Glyde

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