Male traditional dress doll

NameDoll

Artist Artist Not Recorded

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

Collections

United States and Canada

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.