Female, baby, horse and travois doll

NameDoll

Artist Artist Not Recorded

CultureAssiniboine

Date1920-1972

Place madeDodson, Montana, United States, North America

MediumCotton cloth, buckskin, paint, seed beads, wool yarn, felt, porcupine quills, feathers, sequins, wood, commercial plastic horse, imitation fur, imitation hair

Dimensions8 7/16 × 3 15/16 × 11 1/2 in. (21.5 × 10 × 29.25 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.2015.28.23

Collections

United States and Canada

DescriptionThe female doll has a brown face with black and white beaded eyes and red lips. Her hair is in two black braids with a red feather on top of a white and red beaded headband. She is wearing a blue beaded necklace and a red beaded necklace. Her beige buckskin clothes have red designs on the arms. The baby in a cradle is deerskin with red, pink, and teal beads and designs. The woman is seated on a tan and white horse with two sticks on either side attached at the horse's head. The bottom of the sticks are connected with a bundle of brown fur between them. The beige saddle has red and blue beading on the edges.