Wooden Doll Wearing Painted Hide Strap Dress

Wooden Doll Wearing Painted Hide Strap Dress

958.131.171

Female wooden doll has painted face and fur hair. She wears a complete strap dress ensemble made from hide with fur on the dress flap. The dress has horizontal painted motifs from midway down the skirt to the hem. She is accessorized with mittens and high top mocassins.

1927-1950

Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi)

Voisey's Bay, Labrador

Wood, red and black pigment, caribou hide, fur, sinew

Collected by fur trader Richard White Jr. for Frank G. Speck at Voisey's Bay. This location doesn't have a Geoname, so I used Nain, but it should really be at a river mouth in Voicey's Bay.

painted hide

56.54193, -61.69549 (N 56°32′31″ W 61°41′44″)

22 x 10.5 x 4.5 cm

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