Linen with buckskin covering; blue and white glass seed bead choker, eyes, white bead mouth; rawhide headdress with 1 black bead and patchy buffalo hair. Original field catalogue: "Ikey Einstein to go in doll cradle".
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1898
Taxon:
Bison bison
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines)
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Context of use:
To go in cradle. May belong in Comanche cradle 2-4862.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 29 centimeters
Loans:
S1984-1985 #20: California State University, Chico (November 9, 1984–June 28, 1985)