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Doll
Not on view
Plains dolls made in the 1880s usually had leather or muslin heads. Here, the maker placed a stone carved by a man—previously the head of a club—on a doll’s body. Remarking on this departure, contemporary doll artist Rhonda Holy Bear said this act "joined the male energy of the carving to the female energy of the doll, and something new and profound was created."
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