Doll representing a Oneida Man
Unidentified Oneida (Haudenosaunee) maker
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
1946
Corn husk, cotton cloth, buckskin, glass trade beads, turkey and pheasant feathers
Overall: 13 1/4 × 3 11/16 × 1 3/4 in. (33.6 × 9.4 × 4.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Wellington Indian Doll Collection Gift of Barbara Wellington Wells
987.35.26725
Geography
Place Made: Oneida Reservation, Oneida, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Exhibition History
Braves and Dolls: American Indian Costume in Miniature, Dartmouth College Museum, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1969.
Historical Society of Montana, Helena, Montana, 1955.
Montana Club
Northern Montana College, Havre, Montana, 1954.
Wellington Indian Doll Collection, an exhibition organized by the Hood Museum of Art and the Studio Art Department celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Native American Program at Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center Rotunda, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 12, 1991.
Provenance
Collected by J. W. "Duke" Wellington (1896-1987), 1946; given to his daughter, Barbara Joan Wellington Wells, Barre, Vermont; given to present collection, 1987.
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