Doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Dressed in hand-sewn Micmac woman's costume of cloth, beads, ribbon. Black wool leggings seamed with faded red silk ribbon. Navy blue wool skirt bordered on bottom with purple, green & red ribbon applique and glass beads. Long jacket of cotton damask, edged with red silk ribbon & embroidered with purple thread. Fastened with large metal brooch (an old button?). Peaked cap of black wool with red wool border, edged with blue and white beads, seamed at back with blue silk ribbon. Female, Penny-wooden, similiar to, and possibly collected at the same time as, 30843." - Ruth H. Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum. This doll had the no. 30849 written on moccasin; 54257 written (1972 Conservation) on plastic bag within which it was stored. 30849 is a splint basket; see cat. books and accession papers. 54257 is attributed in accession book to 2 dolls-American Indian. We therefore gave this doll the no. 54257A, identified by Ruth Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum, 1/4/1978. The tribe of 54257B could not be positively identified, therefore, it has been stored with the unidentified NE collection. However, a 3rd doll, also labeled 54257, was found in the unidentified Plains Indian drawer. Due to its similiarity with 54257B, we have decided to call the new specimen 54257A, and store both A & B with the unidentified NE collection. this Micmac doll (with pointed cap, skirt, etc.) has therefore been give a T number, T1887. Loan Glenbow 11-13-87; loan returned Nov 25, 1988. Illus.: The Spirit Sings catalogue; Glenbow-Alberta Inst.; 1987, #E73, p. 28."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Micmac (Mi'kmaq) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1887-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31.8 cm