Trickster Doll
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: US High Plains and Rocky Mountains (ID, MT, ND, SD, WY, CO)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: 1990
label: Notes
content: A doll or puppet made by artist Don Tenoso (Hunkpapa Lakota) to represent Iktomi, the Lakota trickster. The doll is highly articulated and can move and grasp objects. The puppet has a number of different parts, including a hide drum, beaded mallet, gourd rattle, fur and feather staff, bone and metal dagger, and coyote cloak, which can worn or used in different ways. The objects with the doll, particularly the removable face, symbolize attributes of the traditional folktale trickster, who often appears in different forms to teach people through deception. Don made the doll while he was an artist-in-residence at NMNH in the early 1990s. As part of his residency, Don demonstrated traditional doll-making techniques to the public in one of the museum's exhibit halls.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 6
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Dec 2023
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Western Plains States, North America, United States
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
culture: label: Culture
content: Lakota Sioux
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400707
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Wood, Feathers, Cloth, Hide