Female doll with baby
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo)
- Artist/Maker
- Eva Heffle (Eva Marie Heffle/Ah-Keem-A-Yook), Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo), 1935-2010
- Previous owner
- Kathleen Nightingale (Kathleen Balland), Non-Indian
- Seller
- Kathleen Nightingale (Kathleen Balland), Non-Indian
- Honoree
- Mary Jane Lenz (MJL), Non-Indian, 1930-2016
- Presenter/funding source
- NMAI Staff
- Object Name
- Female doll with baby
- Media/Materials
- Wood, fur, bearskin/fur, bearskin/fur (polar bear), hide
- Techniques
- Sewn, carved, inlaid, drawn
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 14.0 x 15.0 cm
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Place
- Fairbanks; Doyon Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Date created
- 1989
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of Kathy Nightingale (Kathleen Balland); purchased by NMAI from Kathleen Nightingale in 2016 with funds donated by staff members in honor of Mary Jane Lenz (1930-2016, MAI and NMAI curator).
- Catalog Number
- 27/18
- Barcode
- 270018.000
- See related items
- Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo)
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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