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Alaska Native Made Doll Collection - $2,000 (Palmer)
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Sale to be made in person, cash only in Palmer, Alaska. Entire collection, one doll or all for $2,000. No exceptions. Email your contact phone number or email address if seriously interested. Thank you.
2 FISHING SISTERS by Ursula Paniyak of Chevak, Alaska (daughter of the late Rosalie Paniyak) Seakskin faced dolls, dressed in traditional walrus gut waterproof clothes, BASKET WOMAN by Beulah Oittillian of Gambell, Alaska, with a walrus ivory carved face, human hair with bead adorned braids, whale baleen inlaid eyes, wearing a walrus gut parky sitting with polar bear skin w/fur covered baskets and a sealskin w/fur covered basket, beaded tops, mounted on polarbear fur rug, on a fossil whalebone intervertebral disc (ooziva), FISH PRESERVER by Ursula Paniyak (daughter of the late Rosalie Paniyak) of Chevak, Alaska, sealskin faced doll, dressed in a bright parky holding a skin Ulu and a cut fish ready to hang up to dry, and BLANKET WOMAN by the late Alice Johnnie- doll maker & beader, (1926-2019) , daughter of Harry Williams and Adle Tagcook, grew up in Klulwan, Alaska, moved to Hoonah, Alaska and married Andrew Johnnie Sr., also lived in Juneau, Alaska. "Blanket Woman" is wearing a beaded traditional Tlingit style beaded hat and beaded "blanket" cloak.