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A Topsy-Turvy doll is a double-ended doll, typically featuring two opposing characters. They are traditionally American cloth folk dolls which fuse a white girl child with a black girl child at the hips. Later dolls were sometimes a white girl child with a black mammy figure.
Nov 20, 2015 · Topsy-turvy dolls were born into an economy dependent on the idea of inherent racial differences, and a country full of white scholars invested in perpetuating this myth.
May 8, 2024 · Topsy-Turvies are novelties: one doll with two opposing characters joined at the waist; two heads, four arms, no legs. Flipping Topsy-Turvy’s skirt back and forth reveals the other doll. There are two dolls in one, yet only one is available for play.
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Jun 7, 2019 · A unique piece of folk art with an uncertain past, the Topsy-Turvy doll has become subject to debate and controversy among historians. In its simplest form, the doll has two heads with their upper bodies on opposite ends, joined together at the hips.
McCalls, Vogart, Redline, and Butterick pattern companies began producing their own Topsy-Turvy (or Topsy and Eva) patterns ( Historical Folk Toys). Today, these dolls are found mostly in museums and private collections and have seen a renewed interest from collectors and scholars.
Nov 19, 2014 · The history of the topsy-turvy doll really caught my interest. The one below is characteristic. Believed to be from the 1870s, it is the head and torso of a black and a white doll, sewed together in the middle with a long skirt.
May 9, 2023 · Topsy-turvy dolls (also called flip dolls, turnabout dolls, upside-down dolls, double dolls, or two-in-one dolls) are usually made from cloth. Rather than a typical doll’s body, this kind of doll has two upper bodies on opposing ends that are joined together at the hips.
