Doll

MOA: University of British Columbia

3159/3

Doll wearing an amautik parka. Female doll has a head and face carved from antler, with inset eyes and mouth, and wide, slightly protruding nose. Black wool is attached to head for hair with a long ponytail at back. Doll’s parka and pants are made from half-tanned leather. Jacket has an amaut pouch attached at back for carrying a small child. Jacket shoulders have a fringe of beading, and beads are also attached at wrists, on amaut, and along hem front and back just above a short dense leather fringe. Pants are beaded at bottom, and end just above leather boots that have a heavy covering of fur.


  • Type of Item doll
  • Culture Inuit
  • Material skin, wool fibre, antler, glass
  • Measurements height 39.0 cm, width 18.5 cm, depth 7.0 cm (overall)

  • Previous Owner Dianne Newell
  • Received from Dianne Newell

  • Made in Nunavut

  • Creation Date before 1970
  • Ownership Date before March 9, 2016
  • Acquisition Date on March 9, 2016

  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3159/0003