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Cheyenne Beaded Hide Dolls, Pair
Estimate: $8,000-$10,000
Live Auction
Native American Art: The Lifetime Collection of Forrest Fenn, Part I
Description
Cheyenne Beaded Hide Dolls, Pair
ca 1890
male and female dolls; both with muslin bodies and clothing fashioned from softly tanned hide; each further detailed with red and yellow pigments and beading in colors of greasy yellow, translucent green, pink, light blue, red white-heart, white, and translucent blue
male doll with buffalo hair braid wrapped with red wool; female with Carnelian de Aleppo beads on dress
height 17-1/2 inches and 16-1/2 inches
Published:
Historic American Indian Dolls (Fenn 2007: 68, plate 15, pg. 68)
Condition
Taller doll with minor moth grazing to hide. Hide is soft and supple on both dolls. Shorter doll missing one of two earrings on the right ear.