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Doll with hair (possibly human), wearing a jacket and coat made of twill woven cotton cloth, twill tape, metal buckle, lace, green feather. Shoes are likely wooden. Collected by Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his 1892/1893 world tour.
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Commericial doll or human hair, twill woven cotton cloth, twill tape, metal buckle, lace, green feather on hair; feet look like they have wooden shoes?
Wearing jacket and trousers
Collected by Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his 1892/93 world tour.
Provenance
The Este Collection holds objects collected by Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his 1892/93 world tour.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, doll. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 141959. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59052.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in January 2022 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.
Created using a spreadsheet with information made by Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake).
45.8, -83.9
Region of origin possibly not North American (Ruth Phillips).
Autumn Epple theorizes the doll may be settler-made (commercial), but clothes Indigenous-made.