This is an outstanding, large, beaded hide and trade cloth doll from the Sioux Native American Indians of the Northern Plains, dating to circa 1890-1900's. The piece features Indian tanned hide used for the head, hands, and feet, with the body being a thick trade canvas. The doll is a woman figure wearing an early trade cloth calico dress with piped edge of old red stroud and muslin trade cloths. The head has real human hair, mineral pigment ocher paint, and 1800's glass trade seed bead features, along with copper chain link earrings. The piece is wearing an added triple strand of Hudson Bay wound glass red white heart trade beads, along with a necklace of Columbian River early trade beads holding an old bronze Catholic religious cross. Also shown is a trade leather, thick belt with solid copper/brass round conchos tied on a beaded pipe tobacco or strike-a-lite bag with long fringes made of Indian tanned hide, petit seed 1800's trade beads, and rolled tin jingle dangle cones. The hands have hide cut fingers and brass bracelet cuffs and the arms being red ocher dyed. The legs also have a red ocher dye coloring and red stroud trade wool legging wraps with sky padre blue old pony glass beads and chalk white beads of the correct period with Indian hide moccasins. The piece is both trade thread and sinew sewn and is in nice condition, showing little to no bead loss. Provenance: From a historic Eastern Montana American Indian Collection, where the piece was found to be an authentic original, one of the finest collections of American Indian weaponry and antiquities in Montana. Measures overall 19.75" L by 10" W.