A Rhonda Holy Bear doll
Rhonda Holy Bear
Hunkpapa Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux), (b. 1959), a female Ghost Dance doll with carved wood face, horsehair locks, and fabric body, the painted dress and partially-beaded moccasins of hide, depicted holding a pipe in one hand and a branch in the other, apparently unsigned.
height 18 1/2in, width 9in
The dress is modeled after a circa 1890 Southern Arapaho Ghost Dance Dress in the collection of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, object ID NA.204.4.
Provenance
Purchased from El Parian de Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 20, 1988; accompanied by the invoice
Property from the Estate of Arnold and Lorlee Tenenbaum
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Rhonda Holy Bear
Hunkpapa Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux), (b. 1959), a female Ghost Dance doll with carved wood face, horsehair locks, and fabric body, the painted dress and partially-beaded moccasins of hide, depicted holding a pipe in one hand and a branch in the other, apparently unsigned.
height 18 1/2in, width 9in
The dress is modeled after a circa 1890 Southern Arapaho Ghost Dance Dress in the collection of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, object ID NA.204.4.
Provenance
Purchased from El Parian de Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 20, 1988; accompanied by the invoice
Property from the Estate of Arnold and Lorlee Tenenbaum