Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8509005

Category: Doll - Cradle and Doll

Region: Plateau

Tribe: Plateau - Western Plateau

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Wood; cotton cloth; native tanned hide; multi-colored glass seed beads; red, white and blue glass pony beads; dentilium shell; sea shell.

Description: Toy doll with cloth head and bead facial features fitted into a fully beaded baby carrier which is supported by wood backboard and a wood, bead decorated, faceguard. Area over and above dolls head is also beaded.

Dimensions: Height 19.375 inches 49.2cm.

Provenance:

Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

References:

Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 135

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