Doll, Dressed
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jun 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Smithsonian Institution
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "pup-skin dress trimmed with squirrel and wolverine. Loan: Houston Museum of Art 8/25/1969 Returned 12/17/69."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 356 p. 262 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: "Child's doll, Bering Sea Eskimo. This doll is typical of those owned by every young Bering Sea Eskimo girl. The dolls were armless so their clothing could be removed easily for seasonal changes of fashion. Girls were not allowed to play with dolls inside the house or during winter. They had to await the coming of spring, signaled by the arrival of geese. If they cheated, the geese would fly past without stopping and winter would pass without summer directly into winter."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019248
label: USNM Number
content: E129236-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll