Female doll, made of cloth and stuffing. Rigid figure of a black-haired woman wearing a blue corduroy blouse, gold thread embroidery sash, red velvet skirt with 2 rick-rack yellow transverse bands, red boots, and pink slip; sequin decorated blouse; multicolored seed bead earrings and necklace.
Donor:
Silvia Lane
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Silvia Lane
Collection date:
ca. 1958
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines)
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Context of use:
Prof. Lane says that the dolls were gifts from her Hopi babysitter".