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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 3825570, member: 45&quot;]The small doll is a Skookum doll, which is a registered trademark and brand name doll. They were manufactured by the H.H. Tammen Company of Denver, Los Angeles, and New York.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a common misconception that they were made by Indians...which is entirely untrue. They were first made by Mary McAboy,a former Anglo school teacher, who then sold her company to the Denver firm, which mass produced them as a popular souvenir item, selling Skookums all over the country.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best reference on line is probably <a href="http://www.skookumgal.com/skookumnews/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.skookumgal.com/skookumnews/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.skookumgal.com/skookumnews/index.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d be careful of taking the word of many of the sellers on eBay.&nbsp; There are hundreds of &quot;Skookums&quot; listed, but many are not authentic.&nbsp; Several knock-off companies also made similar &quot;Indian&quot; dolls wrapped in blankets, and there are many that were made in Japan.&nbsp; The Skookumgal website has information on how to tell the difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were made by the millions from the 1920s to the 1960s.&nbsp; Many tourists bought them thinking they were buying a Native American doll, which the company encouraged.&nbsp; If you get a chance, see if you can find the background on H.H. Tammen, on the Skookumgal web site.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So if you try to sell it, just be sure that you don&#039;t identify it as a Native American doll, because legally it isn&#039;t.&nbsp; Tammen got away with it, before the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 was passed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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