Delaware Doll Dance
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56921
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Petrullo, Vincenzo
label: Names
content: Gibson, Dora Curleyhead
label: Names
content: Washington, Freddie
label: Names
content: Washington, Jane Fallleaf
creator: label: Creator
content: Petrullo, Vincenzo
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware -- Registered or "Cherokee"
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Petrullo, Vincenzo
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: In 1867 the Delaware moved from Kansas to the Cherokee Reservation, Indian Territory. Those involved in the move became known as the Delaware (registered) or the Delaware (Cherokee). The others became known as the Delaware (absentee). "Registered" and "absentee" are not aboriginal terms.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1929 or 1930
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: View of the dance grounds and preparations. Left to right: Freddie Washington, Jane Fallleaf Washington, Dora Curleyhead Gibson.

F. W. says this was taken at the last Doll Dance in 1929. But Frank G. Speck wrote of the Doll Dance (Oklahoma Delaware Ceremonies, Feasts and Dances, MAPS 7, 1937 page 62): "Dr V. M. Petrullo observed the rite in the summer of 1930...It is understood that the three images in the Nation at the present time may be accorded the honor of the feast ceremony all at the same time..." In another picture taken at the same occasion (NAA Negative 55658) the three dolls are clearly visible in front of the tent behind the two women; in the present picture the middle doll is hard to see because it is directly in line with the tent post. The left tent and the two middle ones were those of members of the Fallleaf family. The rightmost tent was the Washington's. J. F. W. was D. C. G.'s SiDa; D. C. G. was the mother of Lula Mae Gibson Gilliland,who furnished the print from which Negative 55658 was made; J. F. W. was the mother of F. W. The leftmost doll is male; the middle and rightmost dolls arefemale.The female dolls were the inheritance of Elizabeth Fallleaf Beaver's (FaSi of Jane Washington); the male doll was said to have been found packed with them in a trunk after a journey and to be of unknown origin. (Most of the aboveinformation from Freddie Washington, 1967 and 1968. - Ives Goddard)