Dolll Representing a Kootenai Man

Joseph and Mary Aniste, Kootenai / American, dates unknown
Kootenai (Kutenai)
Plateau

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1953

Plastic doll, buckskin, glass trade beads, fur, natural fiber hair and straight pin

Overall: 7 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 1 7/16 in. (19 × 6.3 × 3.7 cm)

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

987.35.26855

Geography

Place Made: Dixon, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plateau

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.

Provenance

Joseph and Mary Aniste; sale arranged through Forrest R. Stone, Flathead Agency, Dixon, Montana; sold to J. W. "Duke" Wellington (1896-1987), June 29, 1953; given to his daughter, Barbara Joan Wellington Wells, Barre, Vermont; given to present collection, 1987.

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