Cloth doll, dressed in traditional buckskins. Embroidered feathers, black yarn hair in two braids tied with buckskin. Trousers and shirt trimmed with diamond-patterned beadwork in red, white and blue glass beads. Headdress of red and yellow feathers attached to a buckskin cap trimmed with wooden beads. H = 17.5”.
Donor:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection place:
Oklahoma
Verbatim coll. place:
USA, Oklahoma, Cherokee
Culture or time period:
Cherokee
Collector:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection date:
March 1971
Materials:
Buckskin, Cotton (textile), Feather (material), and Glass (material)
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 Cherokee Arts & Crafts Center, Tahlegaan, OK