Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8803005

Category: Doll

Region: Northeast

Tribe: Malaseet

Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1860

Materials: Wood; red wool cloth; cotton cloth; silk; human hair; white and purple glass seed beads.

Description: Carved wood female doll wearing a cotton blouse, a silk jacket, a red wool and yellow silk skirt, red wool leggings with yellow silk garters, and her hair wrapped in a cloth binder.

Dimensions: Height 8.25 inches 21 cm.

Provenance:

Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Of Pride and Spirit, Honolulu Academy of Arts, September 12 - October 25, 1981
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:

Of Pride and Spirit; North American Indian Art from a Private Collection in Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 1981, pp 28 and 79, Fig. 97
Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 5643, Lot 119, December 2, 1987
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 134

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