Apple headed, seated female doll, with baby. Synthetic fabric head cover, cotton dress and falnnel blanket. Leather boots, embroidery floss hair in braids, wooden hands and feet. Baby is blanketed w/ composition head and black, embroidery foss hair. H = 6”
Donor:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection place:
Southern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
USA, Kiowa
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection date:
November 1973
Materials:
Feather (material), Leather, and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines) and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
June 5, 2000
Context of use:
Purchased from Drue Strehlow for $1.50. Seller calls doll an “Applatchee”. Donor translates to Wenatchee; later determened to be Kowa