Pair, Wooden-Bodied Man and Woman in Detailed Folk Costumes of Argentina

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Each has stretched canvas over wood socket head with painted complexion and facial features, and all-wooden body with dowel jointing at the shoulders, elbows, hips and knees. The woman with long flax-hair braids and an ivory satin gown with lace trim, silk apron, leather slippers, jewelry, and carrying a castanet; the man with dark hair captured under a wide-brimmed felt hat, and wearing cotton shirt and pants, with black silk chaps and jacket having embroidered flowers, leather belt with fancy silver buckle, metal spurs, and carrying a suede implement. Generally excellent. The dolls were sent to Shirley Temple from Argentinian Fox affiliate during the mid-1930s after Winfield Sheehan announced that Shirley had begun a doll collection. Shirley Temple included the dolls in the special exhibition of her collection that was created for the premiere of "Wee Willie Winkie".