Doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: Mar 1940
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Betty J. Meggers
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Betty J. Meggers
notes: label: Notes
content: Male figure, upper body of stuffed leather. Head covered with beadwork, facial features and attached headdress indicated by diff. colored beads. Beaded necklace, fringes on leather shirt made of beads. Beaded hands, right holding drumstick, left holding double-headed wooden drum. Beaded breechcloth. Leather leggings, fringed and beaded, wrapped over solid (wooden?) legs. Beaded moccasins, soles of cloth. Purchased by donor from Kimport Doll Co., Independence, MO, for $5.00. "Identified by donor as Comanche, changed to Zuni when catalogued based on similarity of technique and style to documented Zuni specimens... Various Pueblos have a "Comanche dance" which this figure may represent" (Candace, Greene, 1990).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Mexico (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 374095
label: USNM Number
content: E424893-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 26 cm