#47 • Yup'ik Hide, Fur & Beaded Doll - Caroline Penayah

Part of September 2024 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $600.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

A stunning Yup'ik doll with handstitched hide face, and traditional winter snowpants, parka, and mukluks, all crafted of seal, caribou, wolf, and other furs. Clothing is trimmed in beaded suede, and the doll's caribou fur hair is plaited and enhanced with trade bead dangles as shown. Unsigned but most certainly by the late celebrated Siberian Yup'ik dollmaker Caroline Kava Penayah (1932-2007) of Savoogna, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska; the artist's dolls are housed within the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Doll measures approximately 5.25" x 14" tall; metal stand is included as shown.