Collection: Fenn

Item Number: FCDOL283

Category: Doll

Region: Southwest

Tribe: Apache - Western

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Native tanned buckskin, tin cones, red and yellow ocher, cloth, glass beads, lace.

Description: The doll is wearing a white cloth slip under a multi-colored petticoat and soft buckskin dress that is trimmed in tin cones and cut-outs that reveals red cloth below. She wears glass bead earrings and necklace. Her sleeves are made of cloth with white lace cuffs. The high-top boots are scalloped around the top.

Dimensions: Height 14 inches

References:

Hanson, James A., Spirits in the Arts: From the Plains and Soutwest Indian Cultures, The Lowell Press, Kansas City, 1994, pp 210

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