Doll
Artist:
Sioux
Date: ca. 1870
Medium: Buckskin with hair/fur, cotton cloth, glass beads, pigment, horsehair
Dimensions:
Height: 14 in. (35.5 cm)
Classification: Recreational Artifacts
Credit Line: Gift of Henry Schnakenberg
Object number: 1931.10.15
DescriptionCloth body, buckskin face, feet, dress and belt. Beaded dress yoke in four horizontal bands, checkered in different colors-one band has upside-down T's. Beaded belt with awl case with two twinklers. Leggings and moccasins of wrapped strands of beads. Two braids of light brown hair/wool tied with string. Face bordered by 3 rows of green beads. Eyes and mouth of white and blue beads. Hair ornaments sewn into green band of long loops of white, blue, yellow beads ending in red beads. One has an oval stone sewn on thru drilled hole in stone. Skirt decorated with five blocks of green beads holding fringe, and a checkered band near bottom edge. Long three strand necklace of beads also has a stone pendant. Cloth body sewn with cotton thread. Buckskin with sinew. Buckskin loop sewn into dress yoke between the shoulders.
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