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- Date
- c. 1920
- Material
- fibre; wood; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.1016 a,b
- Description
- Two Skookum dolls of the type sold in curio stores in the 1920s. (a) Woman with long braids is wrapped in a blanket with a baby and snowshoes on her back. She is wearing a skirt and has on painted moccasins. (b) Male, 28.0 cm tall, wrapped in blanket, wearing pants and painted moccasins.
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- Title
- Skookum Doll
- Date
- c. 1920
- Material
- fibre; wood; skin
- Dimensions
- 29.0 cm
- Description
- Two Skookum dolls of the type sold in curio stores in the 1920s. (a) Woman with long braids is wrapped in a blanket with a baby and snowshoes on her back. She is wearing a skirt and has on painted moccasins. (b) Male, 28.0 cm tall, wrapped in blanket, wearing pants and painted moccasins.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- souvenir
- playthings
- Credit
- Purchased from Alan McClelland, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.1016 a,b
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