About this objectThis cabinet contains 37 fragments of objects or objects found at the original "Buckinbah" homestead site in Yeoval.
Cabinet label states "Artifacts dug at the site of Banjo Paterson's former home "Buckinbah" Yeoval, these pieces collected by the pupils of Yeoval Central School."
Object number BPM22/837 was found at the "Buckinbah" site on 1st February 2022. It was added to the collection as it was the other half of a clasp already in the collection.
The photographs are of the whole collection; crockery fragments; doll's legs; buttons; and the two parts of the metal clasp.
Subject and Association KeywordsFrozen Charlotte Bottle Stopper
Subject and Association DescriptionSpot the Frozen Charlotte. It was likely to have been used as a bottle stopper, the cork stopper has disintegrated, so you are looking for her head only.
Frozen Charlotte dolls were originally made in Germany. They increased in popularity and were then manufactured in other countries. In the United States they became associated with a folk story about a young girl travelling to a ball in a carriage.
The girl refused her mother's advice to wrap up in blankets due to the cold weather. She wanted to be seen in her finery not wrapped up in blankets. The story goes that she was found dead and frozen on arrival at the ball.
nps.gov/articles/-frozen-charlotte.htm
The poem was put to music and was a popular folk song in the United States. You can listen to a recording of it by Ian Bell - "Young Charlotte"
https://youtu.be/3Ew0krxcUig
