Plains Indian Woman Doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 2010
label: Collection Date
content: 1935
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ruth S. Landes
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ruth S. Landes
notes: label: Notes
content: Plains Indian doll made from buckskin, wearing a beaded and fringed buckskin dress and knee-high moccasin leggings. The beads on the yoke are in a flower pattern. She had two braids, each with 1 blue tube bead. She has a painted-on face and a sewn-on nose. She wears a beaded necklace. Her body is made of cotton cloth.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes, Ruth Landes says "Santee Dakota, made by Mrs. Grace Rouillard. Purchased from maker in Red Wing, Minn. 1935.... She made for me an all-leather woman-doll, 12 inches tall. The costume is the Plains traditional garment, one piece, with carefully cut and sewn leather fringes at hem, across chest, the length of the sleeves, the shoulders; beadwork ornaments front and back equally, also the leather leggings and moccasins. The horsehair braids are wrapped in deerhide. Hands and arms are of leather; the poor little leather fingers of one hand are mashed. The pale leather face has features drawn in ink, with impassive [sic] expression; the hair is sewn onto the head. Underneath the leather, the body is a thick cotton. ...also the commercial tanning fluid (I guess that's it) has risen to soil the dress...." Note: "Lakota Doll maker Don Tenoso looked at this doll in 2002 and said he thought she was Blackfoot because of the way the nose was formed, likely made between 1910-40."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Red Wing, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Santee (Isanti) Dakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1048265
label: USNM Number
content: E435078-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 32 cm
label: Width
content: 7 cm
label: Height
content: 6 cm