Doll
- Museum number:
- 2-71750a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210271750a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- C572 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4709
- Description:
- Comanche mother and baby doll. Cloth doll, inked features, yarn hair in braids. Wears blue denim pants, red/white checked tunic [partly flowered in back]. Carries a baby, also of cloth ,with carrier of felt. H = 4.5”
- Donor:
- Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
- Collection place:
- Oklahoma
- Verbatim coll. place:
- USA, Oklahoma, Comanche. Made by Noreen Chibitty, Comanche tribe, Oklahoma
- Culture or time period:
- Comanche
- Collector:
- Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
- Collection date:
- 2/22/1992
- Materials:
- Ink and Yarn
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Dolls (figurines)
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions, 6.1 Cradles and Swaddling, and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Accession date:
- June 5, 2000
- Context of use:
- Purchased at International Folk Art Show, Ft. Mason in San Francisco, CA for $35. Tag states that doll was purchased, by Mr. Jean B. Wilkins, a collector of 60 years, directly from the artist. Mr. Wilkin’s daughter /niece sold his collection. Think this doll was made in about the 1960s.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)