La última muñeca, or "the last doll", is a tradition of the Quinceañera

Quinceañera

Quinceañera , sometimes called "Fiesta de quince años", "Fiesta de Quinceañera", "Quince años" or simply "quince", is the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America and elsewhere in communities of immigrants from Latin America...

, the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

. During this ritual the quinceañera relinquishes a doll from her childhood to signify that she is no longer in need of such a toy. The ritual could also suggest that she is now capable of being a mother. The chambalán de honor is a person designated to "present her to society" and is usually the one to give her the última muñeca as well. The birthday girl will then dance with the doll

Doll

A doll is a model of a human being, often used as a toy for children. Dolls have traditionally been used in magic and religious rituals throughout the world, and traditional dolls made of materials like clay and wood are found in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. The earliest documented dolls...

 as part of the ceremony. Some of the dolls used in the ceremony are made of elegant ceramic or porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and...

and are hand painted. These collector’s dolls are highly sought after on the collector’s market.