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Crow Horsehair And Buckskin Beaded Doll

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Crow Horsehair And Buckskin Beaded Doll
For your consideration is a Crow Indian Horsehair and Buckskin Beaded Doll, with braided horse hair, seed beads adorn both the sinew-strung necklace, dress, sash, and knee-length mocassins. The first European explorers and colonists gave Native Americans glass and ceramic beads as gifts and used beads for trade with them. Native Americans had made bone, shell, and stone beads long before the Europeans arrived in North America, and continued to do so. The use of the “seed bead” by Native Americans beginning in the 1800s was the result of hundreds of years of European glass technology intersecting with the westward expansion of the United States across the continent. This Plains doll is in good condition, no marring noted. Measures 3.5"W x 11"L