Buba and Kolo

Name:  Buba and Kolo

Made by and When: D’Azucar Creaciones, S.L. of Spain, 1980s

Material: Vinyl socket heads, upper bodies, lower arms, and lower legs; cloth lower bodies, upper arms, and upper legs

Marks: Bodies are unmarked, both have D’Azucar hang tags.

Height: 30 inches

Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Black curly rooted hair with brown stationary glass eyes and applied upper eyelashes; closed mouths. Buba’s curly hair is short. Kolo’s curly hair is shoulder-length. Both dolls originally had light brown eyelashes which were darkened with black mascara by the curator.

Clothes: Buba wears an Afrocentric multicolored shirt, off-white muslin harem pants, and a brown rope necklace with a brass medallion.  Kolo wears an Afrocentric dress that matches the fabric of Kolo’s shirt with an off-white muslin jacket and jewelry of a wooden beaded necklace, wooden hoop earrings, and a brass medallion on a blue string. Both dolls have bare feet.

Other: Made in Spain as limited-edition dolls, Buba is #75 of 500 and style #4602. Kolo is #72/500 and style #4601. Both have numbered certificates of authenticity and hang tags. Buba and Kolo are reminiscent of Annette Himstedt’s barefoot children from the late 1980s.

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