- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Male doll wearing a dark blue cape, spotted top and dark blue trousers.
- Long description
- Wooden doll dressed as a man wearing a dark blue cape, spotted top and dark blue trousers. The doll has a wooden painted face. The hair is black cotton and styled in two plaits. The cape is edged with green ribbon and pinned in place at the centre of the chest. The top is dark blue with red, blue, yellow and white dots. The top has collar and cuffs of yellow ribbon. The doll's hands are textile. The doll has a feather is its proper left hand. The trouser seam is edged in green. The shoes are leather decorated with orange, yellow, green and white beads. [MJD 21/08/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Oklahoma
- Cultural groups
- Osage
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939
- Date collected
- 1939
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Bead, Material Textile, Material Ribbon Textile, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Beadwork, Process Stitched, Process Woven, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Width: max 210 mm, Length: max 280 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.8.22B
- Associated publications
- Reference: What is Truth?, Additional author: Jago Cooper; Main author: Tania Moore; Editor: Tania Moore; Additional author: Frances Borzello; Additional author: Pelumi Odubanjo; Additional author: Harriet Logan; Additional author: Tristan Lund; Additional author: Tafadzwa Makwabarara; Additional author: Jeffrey Gibson; Additional author: Evan Garza; Additional author: Paul Luckraft; Additional author: Rashaad Newsome; Norwich, 2024
Search terms: Toy and Game, Figure, Doll Figure