Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased in 1904 during a trip to Niagara Falls by Dr. Oscar Rotter (1865-1932, a New York City physician) as a gift for his niece Frances Schloeder Horstmann (1897-1977); inherited by her husband Fred Horstmann (1893-1985, of Simsbury, Connecticut); donated to MAI by Fred Horstmann in 1979.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Tuscarora
- Collector
- Dr. Oscar Rotter, Non-Indian, 1865-1932
- Previous owner
- Frances Schloeder Horstmann, Non-Indian, 1897-1977
- Donor
- Fred Horstmann (Frederick Horstmann), Non-Indian, 1893-1985
- Object Name
- Male doll
- Media/Materials
- Cornhusk, silk cloth, cotton cloth, hide, glass bead/beads, feather/feathers
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork, edge beaded, strung
- Dimensions
- 8 x 29 cm
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
