Mother and baby doll

NameDoll

Artist Artist Not Recorded

CultureKinugmit (Kingigin Iñupiaq?)

Date1920-1972

Place madeCape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United States, North America

MediumIvory, human hair, fur, hair seal fur, black rabbit fur, buckskin, alder dye, seal skin

Dimensions12 × 7 1/16 × 4 1/16 in. (30.5 × 18 × 10.25 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.2015.28.65

Collections

United States and Canada

DescriptionThe female's head is made of ivory and has painted black eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth. She is wearing a hooded parka of dark brown and white fur covering the rest of the head. The coat is made of dark brown fur with light brown fur trim at the bottom. The legs have white fur around the calves and tops of feet and white boots. There is a leather strap around the waist. The baby is in a fur-covered baby carrier on the mother's back. It has a carved ivory face with painted black eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth, and a light-brown fur hood.