Stereotypical Black cloth doll with a pink dress and white apron

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A female Black cloth doll with a pink dress and white apron with stereotypical features. The doll has a soft, brown cloth head and body with rounded cloth hands and feet. The doll's facial features are embroidered. She has round, side glancing, black eyes, thick bottom eyelashes, and short, thin eyebrows. She also has a black embroidered upturned nose and a thin, red, U-shaped line for a mouth with black smile lines on either side. Her black yarn hair is parted down the middle down the back of her head with three short braids along the back part. The rest of her hair is arranged into three pigtails on either side of her face. The pigtails and braids are secured with pieces of white and light pink plaid ties. The hair is pulling away from the head on the proper right side of the face.

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