Doll

Artist Virginia Stroud (North American Indian, Cherokee, 1951 - 2024)

MediumCotton cloth, horsehair, glass beads, yarn, and silver star pendant

DimensionsOverall: 17 1/4 × 8 × 3 inches (43.82 × 20.32 × 7.62 cm)

Credit LineGift of Howard and Mary Ellen Meredith

Object number2025.90.1

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DescriptionFemale doll dressed in a floral pattern with blue ribbon trim accenting the arm of each sleeve She wears a leaf patterned apron with additional blue trim at the bottom portion of the apron. There is a white beaded necklace with a silver star pendant around her neck. Her hair is parted down the middle in two pig trails wrapped in the middle section with red yarn. Her face is decorated with black thread made to resemble eyelashes and she has a red dot placed over each cheek. With her proper right hand, she is holding hands of a smaller, childlike doll dressed in a similar fashion.Provenance

Provenance

Collection of Howard and Mary Ellen Meredith;

With America Meredith, Norman, Oklahoma;

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

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