Female Doll with Multiple Wampum Bead Necklaces

Female Doll with Multiple Wampum Bead Necklaces

III-H-430

Wooden female doll has carved and painted face. She wears a cotton shortgown, woolen skirt and leggings, with moccasins and multiple necklaces of black and white beads that represent wampum. She has a silver hair club at the back. She is paired with a male doll who wears a shirt of the same fabric as her shortgown, and glass wampum beads criss-crossed across his chest.

1788

Huron Wendat

Lorette, PQ

cotton calico, stroud, woolen tape, human hair, deer hide, glass beads

A note on the back of an associated cradleboard states it is from Lorette, 1788 (Phillips Patterns of Power, p.51)

III-H-431; III-H-429

Phillips, Ruth B. 1984. Patterns of Power: The Jasper Grant Collection and Great Lakes Indian Art of the Early Nineteenth Century. Kleinberg, ON: The McMichael Collection.

46.79354, -71.35285 (N 46°47′37″ W 71°21′10″)

Height 27.5 cm, Width 8.0 cm, Depth 3.0 cm

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