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Native American Doll Collection |
By:
Pat King |
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There are many opportunities to collect different things through out our lives. Some people are collectors and others are not. Some of us choose our collections and others have them chosen for them. I am a cat lover. As a result of my love for cats people started giving me cat statues as gifts. Through the years I have accumulated several figurines in all different shapes and sizes. My husband and I bought a curio cabinet to display them in. I have bought a few for myself through the years but the majority of them have been gifts.
My sister started her daughter on an international doll collection. This was more unusual than the porcelain doll collections. The international dolls were popular in the early nineteen seventies and into the eighties. Some of the dolls were readily available and others had to be ordered through catalogs. Her daughter’s favorite doll was the Native American doll. This doll was bought in northern Minnesota during a family vacation. The vacation happened to coincide with a large Native American powwow. At the powwow there were several venders that had beads, furs, hides and other items for the regalia that is worn. They also had a variety of the Native American doll. My sister had not found one that she liked prior to this. She was glad that her daughter had a chance to pick out which one she wanted because there was quite a selection. The Native American doll that my niece picked out was dressed in a jingle dress. My niece picked this particular doll because she liked watching the women in the jingle dresses dance during the powwow. A jingle dress is created when metal cones are sewn close together on the dresses the women wear. As the women move the cones clink together causing a jingling noise. The jingling adds to the drumbeats during the dancing. Many of the male dancers wear jingle bells around their ankles and on their costumes. The bells and the jingle dresses can be heard throughout the powwow grounds whether or not the people are dancing.
The trip to the powwow had a profound impression on my niece. As a result of this experience she has spent a great deal of time studying the Native American culture. She now works with a local band of Native Americans in northern Minnesota. My sister had no idea that the international doll collection would lead to a career choice for her daughter. She is glad that she started the collection because her daughter loves her job and the Native American people love her.
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