Name: Fatou
Made by and When: Annette Himstedt for Timeless Creations (a subsidiary of Mattel), 1987
Material: Vinyl head, breastplate that extends to the waist, arms, and legs; stuffed brown cloth body; the bottom of the breastplate is string-attached to the body.
Marks: (Incised in the head) Fatou / Annette Himstedt©; (lower back) Annette Himstedt©
Height: 26 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Brown human hair, brown glass eyes with human hair upper and lower eyelashes, closed mouth with dark lip color
Clothes: Mauve-colored dress with white Peter Pan collar, white cotton-lace-trimmed pinafore, white cotton eyelet-trimmed half-slip and pantalettes, bare feet; all articles of clothing are tagged ©Annette Himstedt.
Other: Made in Spain and representing a 9-year-old child from Senegal, Fatou is from Annette Himstedt’s Barefoot Children collection. “1984. During a trip to Africa for UNICEF Annette photographs a young girl named Fatou and sculpts her. This is the catalyst for Annette to create a line of vinyl dolls. Fatou, Lisa and Bekus were her first non-porcelain dolls” (TheToyShoppe.com).
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Reference
The Toy Shoppe, Annette Himstedt Timeline
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