Doll representing a Wasco Baby in a Cradleboard
Wasco
Plateau
1954
Buckskin, glass trade beads, wood, string, paint and cotton cloth
Overall: 5 1/4 × 2 1/16 × 1 in. (13.3 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Wellington Indian Doll Collection Gift of Barbara Wellington Wells
987.35.26862
Geography
Place Made: Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Warm Springs, 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
Northern Montana College, Havre, Montana, 1954.
Provenance
Collected by J. W. "Duke" Wellington (1896-1987), about 1943-1960's; given to his daughter, Barbara Joan Wellington Wells, Barre, Vermont; given to present collection, 1987.
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