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A SIOUX BEADED HIDE FEMALE DOLL
constructed of stuffed cotton with hide head and clothing, her head with beaded facial features, red pigment, and plaited horsehair coiffure, her clothing consisting of a classic beaded and fringed dress, leggings, and moccasins in two shades of blue, green, yellow, black and white-heart red beads, adorned with a leather concha belt with perforated metal disks, a beaded pouch and knife sheath, each with looped tassels, a breast plate and long pendant earrings constructed from porcupine quills
Height: 13½ in. (34.3 cm.)
constructed of stuffed cotton with hide head and clothing, her head with beaded facial features, red pigment, and plaited horsehair coiffure, her clothing consisting of a classic beaded and fringed dress, leggings, and moccasins in two shades of blue, green, yellow, black and white-heart red beads, adorned with a leather concha belt with perforated metal disks, a beaded pouch and knife sheath, each with looped tassels, a breast plate and long pendant earrings constructed from porcupine quills
Height: 13½ in. (34.3 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted to Mrs. Luke C. Walker, who gifted it to Elizabeth M. Clark. Through the Clark family by descent.