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Male traditional dress doll
Male traditional dress doll
Male traditional dress doll

Male traditional dress doll

NameDoll
CultureWarm Springs "Tenino"
Date1920-1972
Place madeUnited States, North America
MediumBuckskin, paint, cotton string, glass seed beads
Dimensions9 13/16 × 3 15/16 × 2 7/16 in. (25 × 10 × 6.25 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.2015.28.57
DescriptionFabric face with painted red mouth, and black eyes and eyebrows. Black hair in two braids with orange ribbons on the ends. Around the neck is a white beaded necklace. The buckskin shirt and pants have fringes on the edges of the arms, legs, back, and off of the red, orange, and green beading on the chest. There is light blue, blue, and orange beading where the fringe begins on the chest. Near the fringe on the back, there is black, blue, red, and orange beading. The belt is multicolored beads, with a beaded loin cloth hanging from the waist. The moccasins have white, light blue, orange, and black beading.