Doll

Seminole people, Native American

About 1920-1960

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Octopus bag, four fingered, with floral design. Black wool cloth. No cord. Beaded in floral design in white, brown, turquoise, yellow, blue, green and red beads of fairly large size. The usual four "fingers." No tassels.
Abstract composition in shades of brown, ivory, and green, has multiple rectangular forms juxtaposed with black linear outlines of a felled tree, a vessel, a canoe, a wheel, an animal head, and other forms.
Halibut hook carving made of yew wood to represent the head and tail of an otter, the tail being shown by five incised lines. The piece is somewhat weathered. In the line hole were a wood plug and fragments of a spruce root line so the hook is an old-timer.
Made with the end cut down all around as though a handle had been attached.