Doll representing a Sioux Man

Sioux
Central Plains
Plains

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about 1950

Balsa and paint

Overall: 5 3/8 × 2 × 1 1/8 in. (13.7 × 5.1 × 2.9 cm)

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

987.35.26812

Geography

Place Made: Crow Creek, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plains

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

Northern Montana College, Havre, Montana, 1954.

Provenance

Collected by J. W. "Duke" Wellington (1896-1987), about 1950; given to his daughter, Barbara Joan Wellington Wells, Barre, Vermont; given to present collection, 1987.

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