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Rushen Camp internee-made rag doll

Date made: 1940-1944

Description: A rag doll wearing brown leather shoes, brown trousers, blue turquoise jacket, pale purple shirt and brown felt hat. Doll has an embroidered face and white hair. The doll will be made round an metal wire frame or armature.

Made in the Rushen Internment Camp during the Second World War by civilian internees.

Measurements: overall: 44 cm x 20 cm x 5 cm

Materials: cotton, leather, metal, wool

Object name: doll

Collection: Social History Collection

ID Number: 2005-0274

Subject tags : #WW2INTERNMENTMUSEUMCOLLECTIONS

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