Doll

Museum number:
2-71761
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
C56 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4709
Description:
Blackfoot Indian Chief doll. Stuffed, tanned leather body with yarn hair, braided in three braids and tied with red. Beaded facial features, earrings and mocassins. Wears white buckskin clothes with beaded designs on shirt, leggings and breechclout. H = 8.25”
Donor:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection place:
Northern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
USA, Northern Plains, Blackfoot. Made by Nellie Buel and contains an inventory # of 803/75
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot
Maker or artist:
Nellie Buel
Collector:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
Leather and Yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
June 5, 2000
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Doll, accession number 2-71761, described as Blackfoot Indian Chief doll. Stuffed, tanned leather body with yarn hair, braided in three braids and tied with red. Beaded facial features, earrings and mocassins. Wears white buckskin clothes with beaded designs on shirt, leggings and breechclout. H = 8.25”

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