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Date
1960 – 1970
Material
skin; glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
108.05.0018
Description
Indigenous doll of buckskin with comparatively small head, wearing shirt and leggings. Simple facial features of black beads, and black yarn hair braided at either side of face. Rather stiff buckskin shirt has fringe at shoulders and across back yoke which is trimmed with red beads, wide belt at wa…
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Title
Doll
Date
1960 – 1970
Material
skin; glass; fibre
Dimensions
34.0 x 7.0 x 17.0 cm
Description
Indigenous doll of buckskin with comparatively small head, wearing shirt and leggings. Simple facial features of black beads, and black yarn hair braided at either side of face. Rather stiff buckskin shirt has fringe at shoulders and across back yoke which is trimmed with red beads, wide belt at waist is beaded in feather stitch of white with blue at tips, and beading motif is repeated in two bands up the front of the shirt to the shoulders. Leggings of lighter colour buckskin are softer and have notched flaps at the side with turquoise and black beads at the sides of the legs. Moccasins have turquoise and black beaded crow's foot motif with green sequins. Hands are simply cut out in mitten shape, buckskin underpants, stuffed underbody of white fabric.
Subject
Indigenous
playthings
children
beadwork
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
108.05.0018
Images
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