Male traditional dress doll

NameDoll

CulturePaiute

Date1920-1972

Place madeNevada, United States, North America

MediumApple, glass headed pins, cotton cloth, string, seed beads, felt, feathers, wood

Dimensions12 3/8 × 5 11/16 × 1 1/2 in. (31.5 × 14.5 × 3.74 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Betsy Grant, Lisa Hendrickson and Deborah Kinder, from the Crandall Collection, A.2015.28.

Object numberA.2015.28.37

DescriptionBrown face with black eyes, and black and white hair. The headdress is a buckskin headband with green thread and red, white, and blue beading and feathers (does not extend around to back of head). The shirt and pants are buckskin with fringes on the front, down the arms, and down the legs. There is red, white, and blue beading on the chest, blue and white beading down the sides of the pants, and blue and red beading on the top of the moccasins. Around the neck is an orange, black, and red beaded collar. In the right hand is a wooden drum beater with round cotton cloth attached at the end.