Female Doll Wearing Strap Dress with Embroidery Trim

Female Doll Wearing Strap Dress with Embroidery Trim

8014.2

Cloth doll with face and hair tied into a seed bead binding at center back wears a strap dress of blue wool with blue wool sleeves, red wool leggings, twisted yarn belt and unsmoked hide moccasins. The dress and sleeves are decorated with thread embroidery and linear beadwork in yellow and blue, including ottertail and diamonds.

1940, before

Anishinaabe

White Earth, Becker County, Minnesota, United States

This doll is paired with male doll 8014.1 (http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10073708&return=brand%3Dcms%26q%3D8014.1)

Wool fabric, glass seed beads, woolen yarn, silk embroidery thread, silk ribbon, hair, unsmoked deerhide.

Collected by Irene M. Hudson

fur trade strap dress

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

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12 9/32 inches height; 4 11/64 inches width; 2 3/4 inches depth

doll

http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10073707&return=brand%3Dcms%26imagesonly%3Dyes%26q%3Ddoll%26spatial%5B%5D%3DMinnesota%26subject%5B%5D%3DOjibwe%2520indians

https://www.geonames.org/5052667/white-earth-reservation.html