Later heads
are made from composition, then hard
plastic. The dolls native attire represent various tribes; males, women, children and papooses (babies),
in sizes of a few inches to 36" tall.
In the1940s to early 1950s the paper identification tags were often affixed
to the bottom of the dolls feet, labels or tags read in an oval circle;
Trademark Registered, Patented, inside circle, Skookum
(Bully Good) Indian U.S.A.
Arrow Novelty also made dolls of cloth, composition, hard
plastic and vinyl. 1881-1962 Harry Heye Tammen - H. H. Tammen Company
or H. H. Tammem Curio Co.
of Denver, Colorado also supplied Skookum dolls, mostly to the
west coast under their Tammem label;
The HH Tammen Co., New York, Denver, Los Angeles, Skookum Indian Patented February
17, 1914.
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