Doll
- Museum number:
- 2-71749
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020071749
- Alternate number:
- C518A (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4709
- Description:
- Sioux man doll. Stuffed leather doll w/ beaded eyes and mouth, rolled leather nose. Dressed in soft buckskin leggings and open-sided tunic w/ an over-triangle on front which is lighly beaded in light blue beads. Leather mocassins with red/blue beads: large blue/white/black/orange beads on sides of leggings. Real black hair tied with thongs. Red feather in hair. Arms are short. H = 10”
- Donor:
- Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
- Collection place:
- Great Plains, North America
- Verbatim coll. place:
- USA, Nebraska, Sioux. Made by Victoria White, a Cheyenne who married into the Sioux Red Cloud family
- Culture or time period:
- Sioux
- Collector:
- Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
- Collection date:
- August 1986
- Materials:
- Buckskin, Feather (material), and Human hair
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Dolls (figurines)
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- June 5, 2000
- Context of use:
- Purchased though Dorothy Meade, Agate Springs Ranch, Nebraska for $25. Maker, Mrs. White, says the nose is her own design.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)