Female Doll Wearing Hide Strap Dress Ensemble

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Title

Female Doll Wearing Hide Strap Dress Ensemble

Identifier

10000.383

Description

Leather doll wearing home cured deerhide strap dress and sleeves with black woolen cloth leggings, yarn belt, and deerhide moccasins. The dress and sleeves are trimmed with pinking and fringing. The leggings are trimmed with ribbon and blue seed beads.

Date Created

1925

Source

Anishinaabe

Spatial Coverage

Mille Lacs, Minnesota

Abstract

This doll is paired with male doll 10000.1248 (http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10257324&return=brand%3Dcms%26q%3D10000.1248) and both are shown in MNHS photograph #35827 (see relation)

Medium

Deerhide, woolen cloth, glass seed beads, ribbon, woolen yarn, hair.

Provenance

Collected by Jeannette and Harry Ayer at what is now the Mille Lac Indian Trading Post Museum, 43411 Oodena Dr. Onamia, MN 56359.

Is Part Of

Part of the Jeannette and Harry Ayer Collection.

Subject

hide strap dress

References

Willmott, Cory. 2021. Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress. Winterthur Portfolio 55(2/3): 121-85

Coverage

46.10722, -93.71611 (N 46°06′26″ W 93°42′58″)

Access Rights

Reproductions and rights are managed by the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS). To order a reproduction or gain permission to use this item, follow the link to the MNHS record, then click "Buy" to start the process.

Physical Dimensions

16 17/32 inches length

Item Name

doll

Institution URL

http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10257314&return=brand%3Dcms%26q%3D10000.383

Geoname URL

https://www.geonames.org/12217948/mille-lacs-indian-reservation.html

Citation

“Female Doll Wearing Hide Strap Dress Ensemble,” Mapping Anishinaabe Regalia, accessed November 12, 2024, https://iris.siue.edu/anishinaaberegalia/items/show/29.