Doll-A-Day 2019 #211:Seminole Dress Me Doll

  Well, all the kittens have been rehomed except little George.
 

His last sibling,Fred, (Ivy named them after the Weasley twins because they are both gingers.),left for his new home on Sunday. George has had to resort to annoying his Uncles. Jimmy is very good about it and even plays with George,after originally fleeing from him after a brief smell. Joey is still fleeing. And step-uncle Mow is hissing less at him all the time. (Still doing it though.)
  I had something else planned for today, but pouring rain changed my plans.I was also away most of the day and all evening because Emma treated Ken and I to a concert tonight.We went with Emma and her friend Erin to see ELO and Dhani Harrison. Dhani is the son of former Beatle George Harrison that I mentioned in my post on the Jim Henson exhibit a couple of days ago. It was a good show. Dhani and ELO were both very good. Dhani came on with ELO at one point to sing George's part in the Traveling Wilbury's song, "Handle Me With Care".
  So, since I was so busy,we're looking at a doll I already had photographed. She's this lady.

She's a Dress Me type doll,which has been customized in the style of the traditional costume of the Native American Seminole women of Florida.

You may have seen my post on another Seminole doll I have. If not, you can see her HERE.

This doll is about 8 inches tall.

She has sleep eyes. Her arms move, but not her legs, which is pretty common for Dress Me dolls like this one.

Her outfit is two parts. There is a skirt,and a poncho-like top.

She also has little real leather moccasins.

She['s wearing a bead necklace and hoop earrings.
 

Her hair is long and tied back.
 

That's the doll for today. See you again tomorrow,when, hopefully, it will not rain and I can photograph the other dolls I wanted to do!

Doll-A-Day 2019 #183: Seminole Doll

   Not to keep harping on this point,but good grief,it's hot! It's too hot to breath, too hot to sleep. We were supposed to get some relief yesterday by going to the COSI Muppets exhibit and to see the movie "Yesterday",with Emma. Her meeting ran long though, so that's been delayed until tomorrow. I can hardly wait! I want to see both of those, but also: COOLNESS!!
  Today's doll is sort of a return to travel dolls. She a tiny lady.

She's a doll made by the women of the Seminole or Miccosukee tribes of Florida.

She's a simple doll. When I was photographing her I thought she looked like she was made of coconut fibers. As it turns out, these dolls are made of rolled palmetto fibers. The fibers are stripped from the outside of the palmetto plant.

The women of the two tribes began making the dolls for tourists in the early 20th century. Apparently this is a later doll,because it has rickrack trim.

She stands only about 4 inches tall. The face is typical of these dolls,with eyes made of a single white horizontal stitch and a single black vertical stitch. It looks like a hat, but that black fabric is apparently supposed to represent hair.

 
There's a nice article on these dolls HERE. The State Library and Archives of Florida has an album of pictures and information on the making of the traditional Seminole dolls on .Flickr. It covers the whole process,from the tools needed to strip the fibers, to the actual sewing of the dolls.
  That's the doll for today. See you tomorrow for another one.