#120

American Portrait Doll "Skookum" in Kidskin Costume
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$2,300
sold
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Description
36" (91 cm). Composition mask face with painted facial features, side-glancing eyes, sienna complexion, black mohair braids with yellow felt decorations, on straw body, wearing original bleached kidskin fringed tunic and pants with wooden bead decorations, kidskin headdress with beaded and feather trim, mocassins. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Skookum, circa 1920, from original "Bully Good" series by Mary McAboy. Value Points: rarer costume with well detailed decorations, on the exhibition size model.