Greek Dolls

Greek dolls have been influenced by many cultures, mixing with, and creating doll simultaneously with, Greek artists. From Egypt come rag dolls of coarse linen or other cloth, stuffed with papyrus. Mary Hillier and others have theorized that there were more soft dolls played with in the ancient world, as there were probably wooden dolls and dolls of other materials. Yet, they only seem to have survive in Egypt because the dry conditions allowed for their preservation. Mary Hillier in "Dolls and Doll Makers" showed seated dolls with realistic faces and hair styles that resembled those on classic marble statues. These were missing arms, but obviously had jointed arms at one time. She called these theater figures, and it is unclear if they are toys or not. Ancient writer Xenophon allegedly discusses puppets in his works, and Plato's famous "Allegory of the Cave" from "The Republic" alludes to shadow puppets or figures on the wall. Many other writers feature ancient Greek dolls, and Sappho, classic poet of the Ancient World left a poetic fragment dedicating her doll to Artemis, "despise not my doll's little purple cloak." Reproduction Kore figures in my collection, one made in Greece, depict young girls before marriage, and are often 2 or 3 feet high, and represent tomb figures. Gorgeous ivory dolls wearing remnants of gold jewelry, and often found in little girls' tombs with scraps of cloth, were luxury figures, but many terracotta jointed dolls exist in the Benaki Museum and other European museums as proof that children's games of all types existed. When I was 9, I saw some of these myself at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, and I actually cried from the emotional impact. Argyriadis writes of dolls created during Byzantium, 330-1453 A.D. Bone dolls with etched figures, and large luminous eyes were popular. She quotes St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople and author of one of The Divine Liturgies of The Greek Orthodox Church, on the similarity between Christian dolls contemporary to him and ancient dolls. Doll makers still worked in clay, cloth, bone, ivory, and wood, just as they had 1000 years before. Dolls were still sold from workshops. At the Monastiraki, I bought a black silk Greek doll head, and other souvenir dolls. We also saw antique German doll heads for sale. Argyriadis pictures many papier mache, wax, and bisque dolls, as well as Dresden German Christmas ornaments , wax angels, and other European toys popular in Greece during the late 19th and 20th centuries. She writes of these so-called "Type V" dolls as heads that come to a point, and date from the first to twelfth centuries. They were inserted into cloth stuffed bodies, and some had wigs. They remind me of half dolls of the early 20th century. According to Argyriadis, from the 6th century on, writings talk about little girls' dolls and their importance. Pollucis Onomasticon mentions dolls in his work, (Lib.IX. 127). During this time dolls were found in children's tombs, and Argyridadis writes these are almost certainly toys. Pagan worshippers still had their idols at this time, and dolls were even found in the graves of Christian adults as symbols of adults entering the kingdom of Heaven as little children (Matthew XVIII, 3-4). Apparently, she writes there was a common Byzantine phrase cited by Phaidon Koukoules, "We're not playing with dolls." An interesting note is that the Empress Theodora treated her Holy Icons as dolls. I find this interesting; icons are meant to take the place of religious statues in the early church, yet at the same time, other citizens would have had idols and ritual figures as part of their worship. People do revere and address their icons as three dimensional figures, and portraits and images like them are indeed cousins to the two dimensional and three dimensional images we call dolls.

Όσο περισσότερο διευθύνω το American Doll and Toy Museum, τόσο περισσότερο συνειδητοποιώ ότι πολλοί άνθρωποι όλων των ηλικιών δεν έχουν ιδέα τι είναι ένα μουσείο. «Ποιος είναι ο σκοπός αυτού;» ρώτησε μια γυναίκα γύρω στα εβδομήντα ή στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του ογδόντα. Μεγάλωσε στην περιοχή μας, η οποία έχει πολλά μουσεία εκτός από το δικό μας, όπως το Μουσείο Putnam, το Γερμανικό Κέντρο Αμερικανικής Κληρονομιάς, το Ινδικό Μουσείο Hauberg και την Ιστορική Εταιρεία The Rock Island, για να αναφέρουμε μόνο μερικά. Δεν νομίζω ότι ήταν σε καμία. Ήθελε να μάθει αν αγοράζαμε και πουλούσαμε κούκλες και άλλα πράγματα. Όχι, απάντησα, δεν είμαστε λιανικό εμπόριο. Σκοπός μας είναι να εκπαιδεύσουμε και να αφηγηθούμε την ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας μέσα από κούκλες και παιχνίδια. Η συλλογή μας αντιπροσωπεύει την Προϊστορία μέχρι σήμερα. Πολλά από τα τεχνουργήματά μας αντιπροσωπεύουν επίσης τις εθνικότητες ή την κοινότητά μας. Λένε την πρόοδο της μετανάστευσης στην περιοχή μας. Επίσης, επιμελούμαστε για να διατηρήσουμε, ακόμη και πράγματα που κανείς άλλος δεν μπορεί να θέλει. Έχουμε αρκετές βιβλιοθήκες βιβλίων για τα αντικείμενά μας, αλλά και για αυτά. Οι καλύτεροι επισκέπτες μας είναι παιδιά δώδεκα ετών και κάτω. Γοητεύονται από τις αντίκες και χαίρονται όταν βρίσκουν κάτι που αναγνωρίζουν. Συμπεριφέρονται καλά και δεν είναι ξεθωριασμένοι. Τα αγαπημένα τους εκθέματα είναι τα Polly Pockets, My Little Pony και Disney Princesses. Κατευθύνω όσους θέλουν να μάθουν περισσότερα για τα μουσεία στο blog, "Το μέλλον των μουσείων". Ο ξάδερφός μου που είναι πάστορας, αποκαλεί το μουσείο διακονία για τα παιδιά, τόσο επειδή προσπαθούμε να διατηρήσουμε αντικείμενα για τις επόμενες γενιές, αλλά επειδή είμαστε αφοσιωμένοι στην παιδική ηλικία και τις αναζητήσεις της, σε μια εποχή πιο αθώα από σήμερα. Εμείς ένα 501c δεν είναι για το κέρδος? Δεν κερδίζουμε χρήματα σε αυτό το εγχείρημα, κάθε άλλο. Οι κούκλες και τα παιχνίδια είναι οι ιστορικοί της ανθρωπότητας. Οι κούκλες είναι συχνά το μόνο πράγμα που μας έχει απομείνει από πολιτισμούς που έχουν φύγει από τη γη και είναι πορτρέτα των δημιουργών τους. Τα μουσεία τούβλων και κονιαμάτων υπάρχουν για να διδάξουν καθώς και να διασκεδάσουν. Υπάρχουν μουσεία για μαγειρικά σκεύη, πλυντήρια, τρακτέρ, φορτηγά, υφάσματα και ήθη. Ποιος είναι ο σκοπός μας; Ελάτε να μας δείτε για να μάθετε, αλλά αν πρέπει να ρωτήσετε, καλά. . .

Το φθινόπωρο έρχεται

Το φθινόπωρο έρχεται Είναι στον αέρα. Ακόμα κι αν είναι 90+ βαθμοί, το αεράκι είναι δροσερό, οι μέρες μικρότερες. Ορισμένα δέντρα έχουν ήδη αρχίσει να αλλάζουν χρώμα φύλλων, στην πραγματικότητα, μερικά τον Αύγουστο. Το Sumac αλλάζει ακόμη νωρίτερα. Αποκριάτικες διακοσμήσεις σέρνονται στα ράφια των καταστημάτων, τέρατα παραμονεύουν σε κάθε γωνιά. Είχα το πρώτο μου latte μπαχαρικών κολοκύθας την περασμένη εβδομάδα και βλέπω μπάρες κολοκύθας, μπισκότα και μελόψωμο στην αγορά.

Είναι μια ελεγειακή εποχή. Εξάλλου, τα πράγματα πεθαίνουν. Ωστόσο, μερικά πράγματα ανθίζουν και φτάνουν στις πιο φωτεινές αποχρώσεις τους. Τα βελανίδια μπορεί να πέσουν, αλλά δημιουργούν βελανιδιές την άνοιξη. Οι κολοκύθες μόλις τώρα ανθίζουν και έρχονται στο δικό τους. Στην πραγματικότητα έχω ένα μικρό ήδη στο αμπέλι. Σήμερα, θάψαμε έναν παιδικό φίλο. Αυτός και ο αδελφός του ήταν πραγματικά οι πρώτοι μου φίλοι και οι γονείς μας ήταν φίλοι και γνωρίζονταν πριν γεννηθούμε. Περπάτησα μέχρι το νεκροταφείο, τόσο κοντά στο σπίτι ήταν, και είδα πολλές άλλες οικογένειες που ήξερα θαμμένες εκεί. Έζησε μια καλή ζωή, αλλά ήταν ακόμα τόσο νέος, και είχε δει το δικό του μερίδιο τραγωδιών. Με έκανε σκεπτικό, όπως όλα τα πράγματα πέφτουν φαίνεται να κάνουν. Σύντομα, θα είναι καιρός να τρέξετε τον κλίβανο για να το ελέγξετε, να τσουγκράσετε φύλλα, να έχετε ένα πουλόβερ εύχρηστο. Απόκριες, η αγαπημένη μου γιορτή θα έρθει. Ο μπαμπάς μου μας έβγαλε όλους έξω για κόλπο ή κέρασμα, και η μαμά μου έφτιαξε κοστούμια και έκοψε διακοσμήσεις για τη βιτρίνα. Κάναμε εκδρομές στην εξοχή για να αναζητήσουμε κολοκύθες, κολοκύθες και μήλα τάφι. Οι γείτονές μας έφτιαξαν μπάλες ποπ κορν για εμάς και μπισκότα και είχαμε τα δικά μας τρομακτικά αποκριάτικα πάρτι. Οι καλύτερες στιγμές.

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1. M' like; If I don't, of course, I don't lose it.
2. Is the price correct? I have limits on what I will pay at a thrift store, yard sale, estate sale, flea market, or doll show. I do a few auctions, mostly online. In general, I don't enjoy them. My husband does, so sometimes I go with him.
3. Holiday decoration, especially Christmas ornaments:
1. Can I use it in the museum?
2. I follow trends as I like my collectibles to tell a story. Over the past couple of years, I have been getting animals, especially sloths, that have become popular. Looking for licensed characters popular over the years. we also like Dr Who, Star Wars and Star Trek. I once let someone else have a Han Solo Hallmark ornament I was buying, and I've regretted it ever since. I can't find the exact one. So now, I'll keep it if I found it first. I don't give up on my stuff, nor do I let others beat me to my findings.

 

Also, don't pass up the physatarian glass ornaments, especially the vintage balls and figurines. Mickey Mouse, Peanuts, Cruel Ann, are great bets. So are Italian blown glass figures, and late figures that use the technique but are made elsewhere.

 

I love the little 60s/70s embellished bags. I like to decorate trees with them or make other works of art. I also like to give them as gifts to my other collector friends.

 

3. Halloween? I love Halloween, and I love the unusual decorations, especially the Scarecrows. I found one recently made by a Shaker community, very neat. I choose handmade items like a recent family of stitched pumpkins because they are beautiful and reflect what can become a lost art. She also crochets, but not like this!

 

4. Dolls and toys: I try to fill spaces that we don't have in the museum. Ditto comics and pop culture stuff. I'm still looking for beans, Precious Moments figurines, Hummels and other collectibles that were once hot but are fading in popularity. I document the history of these things in our museum.
5. My next point is that we are a Museum, not a retail store. I'm fine with it, but I'm pissed off when people take things off the display shelves, and then I bump them up in price. I'm not sure what people don't understand about my sign, "American Doll and Toy Museum", or my greeting, "Welcome to American Doll and Toy Museum, we are a 501c" non-profit organization. Next grumbler, and I'll try to stop, we need the donation we're asking for to get in and enjoy unlimited screen time. Thanks to those who contributed. A big blackberry to those who waltz in, basically freeload, then make snide comments about dolls coming to life and what a shame the library became a museum. Y.G. we have over 4000 books on display and in our archives for public viewing. Also, we do not ask for donations from those who return to us. though they always have a free will donation jar. It's for the museum, not me. we need to continue building.
6. Despite paragraph 5, we have a small gift shop, and proceeds go to the museum. We sell small toys, jewelry, holiday items, books, including the ones I write, some doll clothes and doll sized baby clothes, holiday sweaters, hats, some extra large and fancy knit scarves, small cars, fancy playing cards, coloring books, some antiques. Not from my collection. I'm looking for things I can sell reasonably. Most things are a dollar or two, nothing is over fifty dollars. When not on display, I show items on request, and I take them to puppet shows to benefit the museum and spread the word that we are here.
7. When I look for jewelry, I look for real silver and gold. I also enjoy small sterling pieces such as spoons, coasters, figurines, jugs and butter chips. Vintage rhinestone jewelry and holiday pins are on my list, as well as broken jewelry that I use for my own creations.
8. I like furniture, especially Victorian or arts and crafts. I am excited when I can get a curio, small shelf, shadow box, or accent chair.
9. I was recently given a wonderful antique pump organ. I'm learning to play it, and I play piano, so sheet music, music books, and other small instruments are on my list.
10. I think the categories, and I'm looking for things to fill the gap. There is a method to my collector madness, which makes the thrill of the hunt even more fun.

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: Pinocchio Movie

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: Pinocchio Movie:  Here's a quick post on a new film about the most famous puppet in history.  Pinocchio by Guillermo de Toro is done in animation that ma...

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: some comments

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: some comments: The bathory.org site has an art gallery and store and is very comprehensive. He is the composer of an opera bout her, and a distant relativ...