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23. Doll

The Meskwaki carved wooden dolls for sale during the first decades of the twentieth century but made soft cloth or leather dolls for their own children. Notice the authentic-style clothing of a male. A child would learn to make adult clothing by practicing with doll clothes.

Betty Soleman Webber, the donor of much of the Meskwaki beadwork displayed in Iowa Hall received this doll as a gift when she was a child after delivering a basket of fruit to an elderly Meskwaki neighbor.

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