#526

Native American Doll, with Tepee and Drum, Gifted to Shirley Temple
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$750
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Description
10" (25 cm.) doll. 19" tepee. The doll has stretched rawhide face over cloth form, with painted facial features, brunette human hair braids with beaded detail, and wears soft suede dress with beaded decorations, beaded moccasins. Along with a homespun tepee on wooden frame, and with painted designs over all and with a drum with kidskin heads having painted designs. Generally excellent. The objects were likely gifted to Shirley Temple during filming of the 1939 film "Susannah of the Mounties".