Alaskan Indian woman and baby doll. Cloth and leather [head] doll w/ painted features, black yarn hair. Dresed in brown/tan mukluks w/ red flannel tops, grey fur breeches, red calico print suspuk and w/ leather tong belt around waist. Trimmed in white rabbit fur around hood and black faux fur at wrists. Baby is properly in the hood and peeks out over the mother’s shoulder. Baby also has a leather head w/ painted features and black yarn hair. H = 10.5”
Donor:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
USA, Alaska. Made by Lillian Tetpon [signed under front edge of kousouk]
Culture or time period:
Alaskan cultures
Maker or artist:
Lillian Tetpon
Collector:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection date:
August 1986
Materials:
Fur (hair material), Leather, Paint (coating), and Yarn
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 at One World, Walnut Creek, CA, for $55. NOTE: Label on doll states that it was originally sold by Mary’s Igloo at the end of the inlet from Teller on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. National Geographic map of Arctic Peoples gives name as Quaviargmiut [other spelling: Kaviagmiut [Kauwerak].