Hannah by Nancy Revoir Dezotell

Hannah by Nancy Revoir Dezotell

Made in 2006 by Nancy Revoir Dezotell, Hannah is a 12-1/2-inch doll made for the Green Mountain Doll Club of Vermont's 2006 UFDC Regional Conference. 

Hannah close-up

Made of resin with a black cloth body, Hannah has black eyes and a black mohair wig styled in two high-positioned, short side-ponytails adorned with red ribbons. 

Hannah wears a sewn-on red felt dress, white slip, white pantaloons, and molded-on black boots that have real laces. Her red socks are molded on. 

Hannah's doll

Hannah has a black rag doll (made from black jersey-knit cloth) and a booklet, Hannah's Story, by Mary E. Swasey ©2005. The booklet tells her story of living in the foothills of the Green Mountains in Vermont with her loving family. She adores her father.

Hannah's booklet, wooden base, and molded-on boots, and socks are illustrated here.

The first page of Hannah's booklet sets the Winter scene of the story.

The black wooden base had two pegs that fit into a hole in the bottom of Hannah's boots. 

Hannah's base

The text on the bottom of the base is copied below followed by a photograph of the text.

HANNAH

Green Mountain Medley

Region 15

UFDC Regional Conference

Green Moutain Doll Club of Vermont

June 15-17, 2006

Nancy Revoir Dezotell. 

According to the seller, Hannah is signed and numbered by the artist as a limited edition #42 of only 182. I, however, could not find the signature.

More about Hannah

This doll was inspired by the character, Daisy, in the book Daisy and Her Doll by Michael Medearis and Angela S. Medearis (The Vermont Folklife Center, 2000). The book is based on an actual incident in the life of 8-year-old Daisy Turner, a formerly enslaved man's daughter, who was born in Vermont in 1883. Daisy's teacher tasked her with writing about Africa and handed her a "coal-black" doll that was not (in Daisy's mind) as pretty as the other white dolls the teacher gave to the other students who laughed at Daisy's doll causing her to become aware of the difference in her skin color and theirs for the first time. Daisy overcomes this dilemma triumphantly as she did in other aspects of her life. Read more about the book here. See a picture of the beautiful Daisy Turner as a young woman here and read about her here.

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