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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 4243242, member: 10944"]Ah well here we go. Straight from wiki: “</p><p>In <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">colonial America</a>, white settlers and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">enslaved people</a> fashioned children's toys from utilitarian objects and materials on hand such as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn" rel="nofollow">corn</a>husks, clothes-pins and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_doll" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_doll" rel="nofollow">rags</a>, using ingenuity and imagination.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> The use of apples as doll heads was a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">Native American</a> practice and may have originated among the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois" rel="nofollow">Iroquois</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> or <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_people" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_people" rel="nofollow">Seneca</a> people.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As colonists came into contact with Native peoples, they copied their dolls; Native peoples also began to make brightly and elaborately costumed apple-head dolls to sell to tourists.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookum_doll" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookum_doll" rel="nofollow">Skookum dolls</a> in Native dress, which were popular novelties between 1913 and the early 1960s, were originally made with apple heads; however their creator, Mary Dwyer McAboy, was not Native.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a>”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 4243242, member: 10944"]Ah well here we go. Straight from wiki: “ In [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States']colonial America[/URL], white settlers and [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States']enslaved people[/URL] fashioned children's toys from utilitarian objects and materials on hand such as [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn']corn[/URL]husks, clothes-pins and [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_doll']rags[/URL], using ingenuity and imagination.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] The use of apples as doll heads was a [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States']Native American[/URL] practice and may have originated among the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois']Iroquois[/URL][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] or [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_people']Seneca[/URL] people.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-3'][3][/URL] As colonists came into contact with Native peoples, they copied their dolls; Native peoples also began to make brightly and elaborately costumed apple-head dolls to sell to tourists.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-4'][4][/URL] [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookum_doll']Skookum dolls[/URL] in Native dress, which were popular novelties between 1913 and the early 1960s, were originally made with apple heads; however their creator, Mary Dwyer McAboy, was not Native.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_doll#cite_note-5'][5][/URL]”[/QUOTE]
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