Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed British playing cards "River People") and Papago (Tohono

"River People") and Papago (Tohono O'Odham) are renowned for coiled baskets with bold graphic patterns like this one

This is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr

but still sturdy as a rock with all the hinges and latches firmly attached and locking it up tight

including for the circumference of what read to me like a series of all seeing eyes

Box not included

Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed British playing cards "River People") and Papago (TohonoDoesn't get much moodier than this one, feeling almost like a post mortem of these two dolls! Early photographs of girls with their dolls are not too hard to come by, but much rarer to find portraits of dolls alone, and here a pair, both with painted porcelain heads and porcelain arms, but slightly different from one another (I'd call the one at left the older sister!) And with what looks like a doll bed behind them, which they are leaning up against.