1920s or earlier, all depicting women clad in a colorful striped skirt topped with a dark blouse; six of the dolls wear some kind of beadwork and one doll carries a papoose on her back; plus, a small loom cradling a miniature wool rug-in-progress (16.5 x 11.25 in.)

Tallest doll 13 in.; smallest doll 1.75 in.

Private North Carolina Collection

From the collection of Mrs. Harriet Nottingham, an Ohio missionary serving the Navajos of Shiprock, New Mexico in the 1920s. Tribal members presented her with the artifacts here as a farewell gesture of thanks and goodwill upon her departure from the reservation.

Fracturing and losses to the skirts of three dolls; wear and minor losses to all the dolls; overall good condition given the age of the materials used.