Name and Manufacturer: Talking Tamu by Shindana Toys, Inc., 1970
Description: Talking Tamu by Shindana Toys, Inc. is a pull-string talker. The doll was photographed, described, and given a 2003 value in The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls, as illustrated in the following scanned image from the book.
Other: Tamu means “sweet” in Swahili. Later versions of Talking Tamu dressed differently were made. The doll wears a pink and white floral-print dress in the Shindana Toys 1975 catalog as illustrated below.
Play the video of the sound files below to listen to Talking Tamu speak. The sound files are courtesy of @dollstoyscomics.
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