Female doll, made of cloth. Rigid standing figure of a woman with hair in a bun, wearing turquoise colored corduroy blouse and metal belt/waist band; floral print cotton skirt; hand-painted facial features; pink sandals; multicolored seed bead 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".