California Tribal Arts

CALIFORNIA TRIBAL ARTS

Dolls

		Above: MOUNTAIN MAIDU DOLL. Made of split incense cedar or sugar pine with buckskin-covered head, clamshell bead eyes secured with deer sinew, and a skirt of the split inner bark of the big leaf maple. This doll is patterned after those made by Marie Potts; 15 - 17" long. #820.
Marie Potts, late Maidu elder, is shown above with Craig Bates, noted California ethnographer. The doll at right is patterned after those made by Mrs. Potts, as replicated by Mr. Bates. Photo at PWT, Folsom, 1975.

	Left: KONKOW MAIDU BOY DOLL. Carved of alder wood with a twine head net such as those worn by Maidu men. Patterned after those made by Henry Azbill, late Konkow elder; 7 – 10" high. #822.

	Below: KASHIA POMO REDWOOD DOLL. Made of shredded redwood bark bound with split shoots or bark, clamshell bead eyes; 8 – 10" high. After an example in the Phoebe Hearst Museum, UCB #824.

Above: POMO MUFA’ LAI. Shaped alder or cedar wood body, clamshell bead eyes, shredded tule skirt; 8 – 10" high. After an example in the Phoebe Hearst Museum, UCB. #823.