Doll representing a Cherokee Woman Carrying her Baby in a Cradleboard

Cherokee
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Southeast

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1960

Cloth body, cotton, wool hair and ric-rac

Overall: 10 11/16 × 7 1/2 × 2 5/8 in. (27.1 × 19 × 6.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Wellington Indian Doll Collection Gift of Barbara Wellington Wells

987.35.26792

Geography

Place Made: Cherokee Indian Reservation, Cherokee, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Southeast

Not on view

Exhibition History

Braves and Dolls: American Indian Costume in Miniature, Dartmouth College Museum, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1969.

Historical Society of Montana, Helena, Montana, 1955.

Montana Club

Native American Studies [Display Case], The Sherman House, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1998-present.

Northern Montana College, Havre, Montana, 1954.

Wellington Indian Doll Collection, an exhibition organized by the Hood Museum of Art and the Studio Art Department celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Native American Program at Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center Rotunda, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 12, 1991.

Provenance

Collected by J. W. "Duke" Wellington (1896-1987), 1960; given to his daughter, Barbara Joan Wellington Wells, Barre, Vermont; given to present collection, 1987.

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