Doll's baby carrier/moss bag
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Possible collector
- George H. Bingenheimer, Non-Indian, 1861-1920
- Previous owner
- George H. Bingenheimer, Non-Indian, 1861-1920
- Margaret Bingenheimer (Margaret G. Bowers/Mrs. George H. Bingenheimer), Non-Indian, 1865-1965
- Seller
- Margaret Bingenheimer (Margaret G. Bowers/Mrs. George H. Bingenheimer), Non-Indian, 1865-1965
- Object Name
- Doll's baby carrier/moss bag
- Media/Materials
- Hide, cotton cloth, porcupine quills, aniline dye/dyes, hide thong/babiche, feather/feathers, silk ribbon, sinew, cotton thread
- Techniques
- Sewn, quilled (lane stitched), lined, fringed
- Dimensions
- 36 x 40 x 7 cm
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Place
- Standing Rock Reservation; Sioux County, Corson County; North Dakota, South Dakota; USA (inferred)
- Date created
- 1885-1900
- Collection History
- Probably collected by George H. Bingenheimer (1861-1920, businessman and Indian Agent for the Standing Rock Reservation from 1898 to 1903); purchased by MAI in 1923 from his widow Margaret Bingenheimer (1865-1965)
- Catalog Number
- 12/2308
- Barcode
- 122308.000
- See related items
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Our Universes, Lakota
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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