Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8712131

Category: Doll

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Teton

Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1865

Materials: Navy blue wool cloth; multi-colored glass seed beads; cotton cloth; native tanned hide; tin; thread sewn.

Description: Female doll wearing a navy blue cloth dress decorated with white glass seed beads. Doll has bead decorated leggings and moccasins. Doll also wearing a hide belt decorated with tin conchos

Dimensions: Height 7.75 inches 19.7 cm.

Provenance:

Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

References:

Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 131

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