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Leather doll with buckskin dress with geometric design and beaded moccasins / Unknown

Essay/Description

84.904 Dolls Cheyenne hide, glass beads, metal, shell Late 19th Century Toys Child's Children's Late 19th Century Late 1800s Native American Indian Beadwork Beads Beaded bead work Great Plains indians Objects Drawer 6A Plains

Curatorial Remarks

Gilcrease Journal 9(2) pp21 Strands of Time: The Social Life of the Glass Trade Bead.

Cheyenne buckskin doll with beaded panels, leather fringe and small white shells. Hair drop consists three dentalium shells and a cowrie shell.

Tags: toy, doll, fringe, hair, drop, eyes, face, beaded hair, necklace, beadwork, toy moccasins, dress
People: Cheyenne
Places: Southern Plains, Oklahoma
Purpose: domestic use, personal activity

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

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Title(s): 
Leather doll with buckskin dress with geometric design and beaded moccasins
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
Native American; Cheyenne
Date: 
Late 19th Century
Materials/Techniques: 
hide, glass, metal, shell (cowrie)
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Accession No: 
84.904
Previous Number(s): 
8426.904; 84.904
Department: 
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