Female doll
- Date created
- 1964
- Culture/People
- Siberian Yupik [Savoogna, St. Lawrence Island]
- Artist/Maker
- Hazel Omwari, Siberian Yupik [Savoogna, St. Lawrence Island], 1901-1991
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- E. Arthur Patterson, Non-Indian, 1915-1996
- Previous owner
- E. Arthur Patterson, Non-Indian, 1915-1996
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from E. Arthur Patterson (1915-1996, a US Bureau of Indian Affairs official in Nome, Alaska) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Saint Lawrence Island; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Saint Lawrence Island
- See related items
- Siberian Yupik [Savoogna, St. Lawrence Island]
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/5303
- Barcode
- 255303.000
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Object Name
- Female doll
- Media/Materials
- Fur, hide, animal gut/intestines , yarn, feather/feathers, glass bead/beads, cotton thread
- Techniques
- Sewn, embroidered, strung
- Dimensions
- 32.2 x 22.9 x 5.2 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_271168