Doll representing an Inunaina Woman, Child and Horse
Lena Brown, Inunaina / American, 1892-unknown
Inunaina (Arapaho)
Northern Plains
Plains
1946
Glass trade beads, buckskin, horsehair, wood poles, string and metal wire
Overall: 3 3/16 × 2 7/16 × 7 7/8 in. (8.1 × 6.2 × 20 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Wellington Indian Doll Collection Gift of Barbara Wellington Wells
987.35.26800
Geography
Place Made: Wind River Indian Reservation, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 12.13, Moving House in Prehistory, Benjamin Valentine, Spring 2015
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
Native American Studies [Display Case], The Sherman House, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1998-present.
Northern Montana College, Havre, Montana, 1954.
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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