Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2006.28.001
Accession#:
2006.28
Credit Line:
Museum Purchase.
Object Name:
Doll
Title:
Alice Johnnie Doll in bear regalia
Date:
01/01/2006
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 tied at the back sewn down to back of neck. Doll wears cotton pants in a denim color (not denim), dress in red felt with green hem, hem beaded in colored glass beads to make a red floral pattern with wavy lines and edge beading. Dancing bib of light blue felt is beaded with a blue flower, foliage, and edge beaded all in glass seed beads. Doll hands and boots are leather. Leather boot vamps are black leather, with real fur cuffs, coarse fur (like seal.) Headdress is fully beaded on lavender—colored felt to look like the three dimensional head of a bear in glass seed beads. Black sequin as eye centers. Robe is dark blue felt edged with light blue felt, and a border of mother—of—pearl buttons. On reverse, large image of bear head in profile, well modeled in many tones of glass seed beads, eye of bear has a black sequin. Around base of bear are four floating paws in seed beads with round red paw pads. Robe ties at neck with a leather thong.
Notes:
Per Ellen Carrlee: Bought from Mt Juneau Trading Post. In summer 2006, 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, Raven's Journey 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 significantly in 10 years.
People:
Johnnie, Alice
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