Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9211004

Category: Doll

Region: Southwest

Tribe: Yuma

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Clay; hair; red paint; white glass seed beads.

Description: Male doll made of baked clay. Naked body is decorated with horizontal red stripes on legs, vertical red stripes on chest and abdomen and a combination of the two on arms and face. Doll has black hair and bead earrings.

Dimensions: Height 13 inches 33 cm.

Provenance:

George Terasaki Collection
Trotta-Bono
Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Cleland, Charles F., Yuma Dolls, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1980, American Indian Art Magazine, American Indian Art, Scottsdale, pp 36-41, Fig. 7

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