Pair early Skookum Bully Good Native American Indian Dolls 12

  
Vintage Skookum Native American Indian Doll. Man and a woman(has a chip on her nose).

Skookums don't have arms but were wrapped with Indian style folded blankets so that it looked like they had folded arms. Some had jewelry like earrings or bead necklaces, papooses, hair ties, cigarettes, headbands, kerchiefs, feathered headdresses and more. These have headbands, and the woman has a beaded necklace.

Most Skookum dolls were made so they look to the right, as these do. Composition Of Skookum Dolls Later Down The Line (50s-60s) had plastic heads, bodies, shoes, and feet. The feet are aparticulary intersting to me. There is a small tear in one shoe and that's what the stuffing looks like- see last couple photos. What does the word Skookum mean? It's a word that originated from the Chinook or Siwash traders of the American Northwest and has a few meanings. The main one attributed to the Skookum doll is Bully Good! Which means very good, excellent or large.