Since the height of their popularity in C19 and C20, the popularity of golliwogs as toys has declined as the opolitical incorrectness of their use as anti-cultural icons has increased.  From Wikipedia – where there is a lot of interesting reading if you wish to pursue the subject:”The golliwog, golliwogg or golly was a black character in children’s books in the late 19th century usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children’s toy called the “golliwog”, and had great popularity in North America, Europe and Australia into the 1970s. The doll is characterised by black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips, and frizzy hair. While home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male.

This fellow, from Graciela’s collection, doesn’t quite conform to the type descriptor above – but we recognise him, anyway, as one of these figures.  And, to me he looks rather Uruguayan, not just because his wristband says so, but his headgear and short dreadlocks are somewhat reminiscent of candombe drummers, whose music is listed as a World Cultural Heritage from the Rio Plate area.