All cloth doll, with felt face, embroidered eyes and mouth; nose a piece of applied felt. Dressed in one-piece suit of black flannel, with white felt trim on feet, around hood and down the front, with yellow yarn ties. Sleeves are sewn so that the hands do not show under a white felt cover. Also a white felt piece at the crotch. H = 9”.
Donor:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection place:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada, Coppermine River Eskimo, made by a Canadian Eskimo for sale by Coppermine Craft and Guild
Culture or time period:
Canadian cultures and Copper Eskimo
Collector:
Jane E. Gregory and Sarah J. Gregory
Collection date:
August 1982
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
June 5, 2000
Context of use:
Purchased by Bill Gardner at the British Columbia University Museum in Vancouver, BC, Canada, at the request of the donor, for $35. Copy of a doll made in the 1870s. This type of one-piece suite is shown on Alaskan Eskimo babies that are too old to be carried in their mothers’ hoods, so are carried on the back or one hip. Crotch is covered with a soft skin “diaper” lined with moss.