Female Doll Wearing Stroud Strap Dress Ensemble

Female Doll Wearing Stroud Strap Dress Ensemble

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This female doll is made of stuffed cloth and has a face sewn on and woolen yarn hair. She wears a strap dress made from stroud cloth with the selvedge edge adorning the hem, along with two rows of wool tape. The straps and front panel are decorated with white zig zag and diamond mesh linear beadwork. The ensemble also includes leggings and sleeves of the same stroud with ribbon, tape and seed bead trim. The sleeves are held in place by a multicolor loomwoven strap across the chest. She wears deerhide moccasins.

1919, before

Anishinaabe

White Earth, MN

Densmore describes this doll as a "complete costume worn by a Chippewa woman in (approximately) the years 1850–1860."

Stroud (woolen cloth with bound selvedge), woolen tape, silk ribbon, seed beads, deerhide, woolen yarn.

Collected by Frances Densmore.

strap dress

Frances Densmore. 1929. Chippewa Customs (St.Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1979), 67 and plate 27.

Heritage Item

47.22759, -95.72049 (N 47°13′39″ W 95°43′14″)

L:34 W:25.7 H:6 (in CM)

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