Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Qualla Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Cherokee, North Carolina) in 1986; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Houma
- Artist/Maker
- Marie Billiot Dean (Marie Biyot Dean/Marie Billiout Dean), Houma, 1916-2010
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual (Qualla Arts & Crafts Cooperative/Qualla Arts & Crafts Coop/Qualla Crafts), 1946-
- Date created
- 1986
- Object Name
- Doll with cradle/cradleboard
- Media/Materials
- Spanish moss, palmetto fiber, ribbon, button/buttons
- Techniques
- Braided, plaited, stitched
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 14 x 12.2 cm
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
