Female Doll Wearing Strap Dress with Pinked Hem

Female Doll Wearing Strap Dress with Pinked Hem

163.E32.A

Cloth doll with face and hair, wearing faded blue strap dress with pinked hem and red straps, sleeves and leggings. Straps and sleeves are trimmed with green seed bead running stitch. Doll also wears strands of blue and yellow seed beads and deerhide and cloth moccasins.

1893

Anishinaabe

White Earth, Becker County, Minnesota, United States

This doll is paired with male doll 163.E32.B (http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10073382&return=brand%3Dcms%26q%3D163.E32)

Wool and cotton fabric, cotton tape, glass seed beads, hair (possibly moose), deerhide

Collected by Joseph Alexander Gilfillan, Episcopal missionary, while he was stationed among the Anishinaabe of White Earth, MN, 1873-1908.

fur trade strap dress

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

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16 7/32 inches length; 6 1/16 inches width; 2 3/4 inches depth

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