Seminole Cloth Dolls

Dressing a Seminole doll.

        Seminole cloth dolls reflect the elaborate, bright costumes of these people. Seminole women have always been admired for their creative designs and admirable sewing skills.

        The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, who now reside primarily there and in Oklahoma. The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creek from what is now Georgia and Alabama, who settled in Florida in the early 18th century. The word Seminole is a corruption of cimarrón, a Spanish term for “runaway” or “wild one”, historically used for certain Native American groups in Florida. The Seminole are closely related to the Miccosukee, who were recognized as a separate tribe in 1962.

Links to Seminole cloth dolls:

• Two Seminole Fiber and Cloth Dolls
• This pretty little lady is a Seminole palmetto fiber and cloth doll. She is part of the exhibits at Ah Tah Thi Ki Museum located on the Big Cypress Seminola Reservation in southern Florida, USA
• A Seminole doll made of palm fiber and cloth in the traditional style, on display at the Old State Capitol in Tallahassee.
• Seminole Doll at Auction

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