Circa 1900 - 1930s Mandan Buckskin Doll With A Wonderful Porcupine Quilled War Shirt - The doll and its body are all smoked braintanned buckskin stuffed with hair - The shirt has tiny quilled strips showing bear paws and beaded front and back shirt flaps - The leggings and breech clout are both old woolen trade blanket fragments - The leggings are secured with brass shoe buttons and braintanned buckskin ties - The doll holds a buffalo hide bag over his right shoulder - His horsehair braids are wrapped in red and black wool strips - His facial features are beaded in old glass trade beads - His earrings are bodmer blue glass beads and tiny elk ivories - In his left hand, he holds a pipe with a catlinite pipe head and an ornate carved wooden stem - His moccasins are two-piece, fully beaded braintanned buckskin - He stands 12" tall and is 7 5/8" at his widest point - There are a few stitches missing on his quilled strips and the shirt is rather stiff, probably from a child's play - The pipe appears to be a later edition to the piece - Condition is extremely good - The doll shows patina from use - Native American Dolls & Kachinas - Frontier Plunder Indian Trading Post

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