Doll
Item number Na996 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Doll wearing a parka with a large hood edged in brown and white fur. The tailored parka has a full skirt and is made of multi-coloured flowered material decorated with ribbon, embroidery, and braided wool. The doll wears two skirts underneath: one of unbleached cotton with brown fur trim, the other, a blue-flowered skirt. She also wears a multicoloured woven sash, yellow felt mittens embroidered with flowers, brown leggings, and boots with leather soles and cotton uppers that are embroidered with flowers.
History Of Use
Arts and crafts were made by hospital patients as a form of therapy.
Narrative
Collected by Grace Adam between 1950 and 1965. Said to have been made by a tuberculosis patient at the Charles Camsell Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta.
Item History
- Made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 1950 and 1965
- Collected before 1965
- Owned by Norrie Barth before January 16, 1985
- Received from Norrie Barth (Donor) on January 16, 1985
What
- Name
- Doll
- Identification Number
- Na996
- Type of Item
- doll
- Material
- leather skin, skin, wool fibre, cotton fibre, plastic and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- sewn, embroidered, woven and braided
- Overall
- height 20.7 cm, width 10.3 cm, depth 4.3 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Who
- Culture
- Inuit
- Previous Owner
- Norrie Barth
- Received from
- Norrie Barth (Donor)
When
- Creation Date
- between 1950 and 1965
- Collection Date
- before 1965
- Ownership Date
- before January 16, 1985
- Acquisition Date
- on January 16, 1985
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 1020/0003
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