Male traditional dress doll

NameDoll

CultureComanche

Date1920-1972

Place madeUnited States, North America

MediumPlaster, paint, cotton, animal hide/hair, velveteen, buckskin, suede, wool, rickrack, feathers, seed beads, wood

Dimensions13 3/4 × 5 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (35 × 14 × 6 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.2015.28.38

DescriptionBrown hair in two cloth-wrapped braids and a headdress with orange, white, blue, and yellow beaded headband and brown feathers. Peach-colored face with black eyes and eyebrows, orange chevron across face and orange lips. The shirt and pants are olive-colored on the front and blue on the back. There is a brown panel around the waist with a fringe. The pants have a buckskin fringe and yellow, orange, white, and black beading down the sides. There is a yellow bow in the left hand and an orange hatchet in the right hand. The moccasins are black.