Doll

Museum number:
2-71754
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
C59B (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4709
Description:
Wichita Indian man doll. Cloth stuffed doll, dressed in yellow buckskin shirt and overtunic with a few beads, mocassins, and buckskin leggings to the knee. Yarn hair; embroidered features; white feathers in hair; streaks of red paint on each cheeks. H = 10.5”.
Donor:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
USA, Wichita
Culture or time period:
Wichita
Collector:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection date:
July 1966
Materials:
Buckskin, Feather (material), and Paint (coating)
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 from Oklahoma Indian Arts and Crafts, Anadarko, Oklahoma for $13.60. Wichita is a Caddoan tribe under Hokan-Siouxan.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Doll, accession number 2-71754, described as Wichita Indian man doll. Cloth stuffed doll, dressed in yellow buckskin shirt and overtunic with a few beads, mocassins, and buckskin leggings to the knee. Yarn hair; embroidered features; white feathers in hair; streaks of red paint on each cheeks. H = 10.5”.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Doll, accession number 2-71754, described as Wichita Indian man doll. Cloth stuffed doll, dressed in yellow buckskin shirt and overtunic with a few beads, mocassins, and buckskin leggings to the knee. Yarn hair; embroidered features; white feathers in hair; streaks of red paint on each cheeks. H = 10.5”.

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