Doll

Museum number:
2-71882
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071882
Alternate number:
C27 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4709
Description:
Shoshone warrior dancer doll. Leather and cloth stuffed doll w/ white leather seggings, shirt and boots, decorated w/ red & blue beads. Facial features are beaded, applied leather nose. Feather dance bustle, beaded rosettes over ears. Yarn hair, badger roach headdress. H = 9.5”
Donor:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection place:
Wyoming
Verbatim coll. place:
USA, Wyoming, Shoshone. Made by Yvonne Wagon, Northern Plains Indian Craft Assoc.
Culture or time period:
Shoshone
Maker or artist:
Yvonne Wagon
Collector:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection date:
September 1964
Materials:
Badger fur, Feather (material), Leather, 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 from Kimport for $13.95
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Doll, accession number 2-71882, described as Shoshone warrior dancer doll. Leather and cloth stuffed doll w/ white leather seggings, shirt and boots, decorated w/ red & blue beads. Facial features are beaded, applied leather nose. Feather dance bustle, beaded rosettes over ears. Yarn hair, badger roach headdress. H = 9.5”

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