Doll head

Few of the companies that made china heads labeled their products with identifying logos or marks. Years later, because doll collectors could not always identify the maker of a doll, they named their dolls according to their hairstyles. Some styles names derived from the famous individuals who made the style popular, people like Jenny Lind, Queen Victoria, and Mary Todd Lincoln. Other terms were more a description of the style itself, like high brow, low brow, spill curls, and curly top. Other terms are more mysterious. This particular doll head is often referred to as covered wagon, presumably because the hairstyle was popular at the time in American history when many girls and young women sporting the style migrated West in the iconic Conestoga wagon. The covered wagon style is characterized by a high center part on the forehead from which hair is pulled smoothly over the ears and settled in rows of finger or corkscrew curls that cover the back of the head.