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' Did You Know?
By Lu Ten Napel
The history of dolls m
almost a history of man
hinfself. Although we have
little proof, it is safe to say
that dolls have been around
as long as people have. Stone
age relics of clay that have
been found show just a hint of
the shape of the body and
face. In the Bronze age, from
2,000 up to 1,000 B.C. the dolls
were fiat and carved from
marble, limestone, bone,
slate or alabaster.
The earliest dolls were
undoubtedly connected with
the warship, of the pre-
historic people. Some,
representing the gods whose
favor they were seeking.
These primitives hoped that
the gods would grant them
good crops, success in war
and even children to childless
couples. Other images were
made to house the souls of a
"dear departed" relative, to
keep those unseen spirits
from bothering the living
members of the family.
Most of those remaining in
museums, and private col-
lections are terra-cota, or
hard baked clay.
One custom that is known to
ihave been prevalent in
ancient times was the burying
of live members of a dead
king's or prince's family as
well as his best loved servants
in the tomb with him when he
died. One horrible tale is told
of the dying agonies of these
helpless victims of a
Japanese Prince. The wise
emperor decreed that
someone must plan
something to change this
custom. A potter was found
who could fashion figures
suitable to substitute for the
family and servants. Many
such figures have been found
in ancient tombs.
Because the ancient
Chinese have left more
recorded history than other
nations we have another bit of
interesting information. Soon
after the invention of paper,
which has been traced back to
the second century Before
Christ, images were cut from
paper, rubbed all over the
body, then thrown into a
river. The sins of that person
would be absorbed by the
paper image and those sins
would float calmly down-
stream with the image and
finally be lost at sea, leaving
behind a pure and unstained
soul.
Another ancient Chinese
custom was the use of an
ivory image of a woman in
diagnosing illness. A Chinese
lady must never expose any
part of her body to any man
except her husband. When
she became ill she sent her
maid to the doctor and the
maid told the doctor where
er mistress had pain by
pointing to the area on the
ivory image. These useful
ivory images would date back
many centuries.
An ancient doll of our own
country is the Indian Kachina
which is found in our own
Southwest. Kachinas are
most closely associated with
the Hopi people on the high
mass of Northeast Arizona.
The old people of the tribe
say that the Kachina gods live
in the heights of the San
Francisco peaks, north of
Flagstaff. All of the young
men of the tribe are warriors.
At anytime, one of the
warriors may he visited in his
dreams by one of these sacred
gods and told of a new and
acceptable ceremony of
worship. The young man upon
awakening tells his fellow
tribesmen of his dream and
fashions a model of the cos-
tume that the god told him
should be worn. He must
carve this from driftwood
picked up along the banks of
the Little Colorado River. If
he uses any feathers they
must come from the sacred
eagles that the tribe keep as
captives, tied to the roofs of
their Oat roofed, sunbaked,
adobe homes.
After the great ceremony is
over, the model may be given
to a favorite child as a
plaything, Since this custom
dates back many centuries
this is the first mention, that I
have found, of an image of a
human being used as a play
'toy. I would say, knowing
little girls, however, that
r limi imaginations
had invented dolls to play
with for many centuries
before their elders got around
to making life like toys for
them. A handkerchief or
shawl, or any piece of cloth
stuffed in the center with
almost anything and tied with
a string to form a head would
serve an imaginative child
very well. Or even a stick, or
a cob, with a blanket wrapped
around it, could come alive in
a child's fertile mind.
The oldest specimens of
dolls of our own culture and
saved through the genera-
lions or told about in ancient
diaries were crudely carved
from wood by some member
of the family. As craftsmen
perfected their arts, finer
specimens of toys began to
appear. As early as 1600 there
were 17 workshops in
Germany devoted to the
manufacture of dolls. By 1700
there were six "Master Doll-
makers of Nuremburg--
Germany." The most
common materials used in
this doll making, besides
carved wood, were wax,
China, and paper-macbe. By
the middle 1700's the
Germans were fast becoming
past masters in the art of
China firing.
During this period,
Catherine de Medici was a
power in France. She and her
French dress designers
decided to make and dress
dolls and send them to foreign
countries to show the latest
Parisian styles abroad. At
first these doll's heads were
fashioned from paper-mache
with elaborate hair styles and
stiff jointless wooden bodies.
Later they were refined to
have bisque heads, molded
and jointed bodies which were
more often than not covered
with kid. These were known
as "Fashion, Dressmaker or
milliner dolls." The costumes
were correct to the smallest
i, evep jewelry.
These ambassadors traveled
duty free and records to their
dispatch are still seen in old
account books of the French
Court.
However, it was not until
the 19th century (the 1800s)
that dolls ceased always to
represent men and women
and came to take the form of
babies. The baby doll was
first taken into Germany
from England in the 1850s.
Bby dolls were first
introduced at the Crystal
Palace Exposition in London
in 1851. Several of these
earlier baby dolls are highly
prized possessions today. The
Schmidt doll from Germany
is mostly an 1880 to 1890
production. The one my
cousin owns, she bought in an
antique shop just because she
fell in love with it. It is
mentioned in Coleman's
Encyclopedia of Dolls. The
Bye-lo baby, was sculptored
by Grace Story Putman off a
three day old baby's face. It
has at times brought as much
as $70,000 in yearly royalties.
You can see why doll making
has become big business.
It was in the 1800s, during
the industrial Revolution that
doll making changed from an
individual basis, like father
whittling out his daughter's
Christmas doll and Geppetto
in his little toy shop designing
Pinocchio and carving him
from wood. Dollmaking went
into the factories and became
a world wide industry.
Collectors usually site the
year 1830 as a guide date for
this change. It was around
this date that the highly
valued china and bisque
(which is unglazed china)
were first produced in any
quanity in Germany, and then
later in France. You may be
surprised to know that the
talking and walking doll is not
new, only improved. In 1823
the French Industrial Exhibi-
tion had dolls that said mama
and papa. In 1825 the earliest
known sleeping doll was
marketed and in 1826 the first
doll to walk by itself
appeared. It was known as an
"Autoperiptetikos" and
moved by a key wound
mechanism inside the body.
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grade class at Mabank this Penny.
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Mother's Day gift.
Boys and girls decided what
their mothers cooked that
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recipe. The second graders
wrote their versions of the
recipes and put them all
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One of the mothers shared
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we're sure you'll enjoy these
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concosted by the second
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Cookies seemed to be the
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graders and their interpreta-
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fascinating. Dewain, for
instance, offers some very
practical advice in his cookie
recipe.
COOKIES
suger, milk, Flower, egg,
vainlla.
You cook it before you eat it.
Rex takes the same approach
with his unusual recipe for
cony cooies
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cholt and cook it then you eat
it.
Coockies by Robert
Do you wont to know how to
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tell you. You take shoger,
flower vanela and buttermilk
and eggs.
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make a hole in the middle and
put them in a meddle pan with
holes in it and put into a
cooker-frier and cook it for
• about 1 minit.
You'll never find a more
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FUGE
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and you need shogr and
shornen to and you will need
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chickan
I've been hearing tales
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Edna Malone, who used to
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to paint, embroider or
applique lovely designs.
Another friend told me that
some local folks nick named it
"Little Neimans." Their
economy priced stock of
western clothes for the whole
family is very popular with
people shopping for work
clothes for ' is
very popular with people
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One day last week
"someday" arrived. Despite
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Whipped Cream
Stawberrys
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You take the shortcake, put
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whipped cream.
Laure's Choocklet cake
You need some flower and
some milk. And ster it up.
And you need one egg, 3 cups
of flower too. And you need
some vinella. And then you
Jason gives a few more cook it about 3 minits and
details for his Cholchet chip then take it out. And 2 more
You put some chips in it and
ster it up and you put it in the
over, then you keep it in the
oven and you bakes it about I0
means.
Kasey's tea cakes might be a
little explosive.
:. c. buttermilk
2 c. suger
4 c. flower
2 eggs
1 c. shooting
1 tsp. venla
You ster to a stef dogh. You
can put 2 c. flour, bake at 250.
How about a big bowl of
Penny's pudon?
PUDON
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