Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2006.03.001
Accession#:
2006.03
Credit Line:
Donated by Jane Lindsey.
Object Name:
Doll
Title:
Raven doll by Alice Johnnie
Date:
01/01/1995
Description:
Handmade doll by Alice Johnnie. Soft—bodied figure has felt face, three dimensional nose, and eyes/lips embroidered. Hair is loose cotton—like yarns braided at back and tied with leather thong. Doll wears cotton pants in a denim color (not denim), dress in purple felt with white hem, hem beaded with white and light blue glass seed beads and gold—colored sequins. Dancing bib of green felt is beaded with pink and golden metallic colored glass seed beads and red metallic—colored sequins. Doll hands and boots are leather. Leather boot vamps are white leather, with real fur cuffs, coarse fur (like seal.) Headdress is white with blue—green iridescent glass seed edge beading, and image of raven bracketed by chevron shapes in glass seed beads. Robe is green felt edged with blue felt, and a border of mother—of—pearl buttons. On reverse, large image of a raven in glass seed beads, eye of raven is a pink sequin. Robe ties at neck with a leather thong. Tag for silver hand program still attached, price $125.
Notes:
Per Ellen Carrlee: Bought by donor around 1995, interesting to note that in 2006, when donated, these dolls are seen for sale in large numbers downtown in Juneau: Mt. Juneau Trading Post, Alaska General Store on Front street, the Friends of the Alaska State Museum gift shop, and other places. Museum staff member and beader Jane Terry suggested that the elderly Alice is teaching her granddaughter the art form, and that newer dolls may be collaborative...Also, the price has not increased.
People:
Lindsey, Jane; Johnnie, Alice
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