Name: Little Miss Celie Harris
Made by and When: Rachel McCullough Sherrod of Starkey’s Daughter Cloth Dolls, 2024
Material: Synthetic hair, wool-blend felt face over sculpted clay; felt arms and legs; stuffed cotton-blend head and torso
Marks: Signed by the artist, Rachel McCullough Sherrod of Starkey’s Daughter Cloth Dolls and dated, also has a hang tag that contains the artist’s information and a certificate of authenticity
Height: 16 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Handmade black wig, brown-painted eyes, closed mouth with painted dark lip color
Clothes: Vintage straw boater hat with a black ribbon hat band, pintucked lace-trimmed white cotton full-length dress, ruffled-hem petticoat, white undergarment, white stockings, and black boots
Other/Artist’s Statement: Part of the artist’s historic doll series, this one-of-a-kind character doll represents “Little Miss Celie Harris of Hartwell County, Georgia when she was still just a little girl, our shero in The Color Purple” the 1982 novel by Alice Walker and the 1985 film adaptation by Stephen Spielberg.
Gallery (Photos courtesy of the artist)
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