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Meotzi
Meotzi (the girl from long ago) is a Jewel 146 ‘Candy Girl’ made by Orient Industry of Japan in March 2014. She has the optional ‘hard grip’ skeleton (stiff joints) for maximum posability.
She is my middle daughter. She is also something like a ‘solidogram’ (in science fiction) in that she is a record of someone from the past, whose name we do not know, and neither do we know the exact time in which she lived. In that respect she is perhaps analogous to a character in the 1980s British television series Sapphire and Steel.
Squaw valley
One of her daughters is now a middle-aged woman living with us Northern Cheyennes on Tongue River. The mother lived to old age and died in Oklahoma six years ago, some time after Christmas (January, 1921) but her name is continued among us. A little granddaughter of mine is known to us as Meotzi. At times the young people joke [with] her: “You are Custer’s Indian wife.”
–Quoted from Kate Bighead, eyewitness at the battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25th, 1876) as written down by Thomas Bailey Marquis in 1927
Meotzi and Lina
After the battle of the Little Big Horn, Chief Sitting Bull escaped with a band of surviving Lakota Sioux to the ‘land of the great white grandmother’–Canada under Queen Victoria. The group, consisting of several thousand men, women, and children, was met at the border by the North-West Mounted Police. The mounties explained that the Lakota were there under the protection of British law, which, correspondingly, they must obey.
Marble staircase
Exploring the future
Upside-down
Climbing the stairs to Grandma’s room
Climbing the stairs 2
She is light enough and her joints stiff enough that she can hold a standing pose provided that she is leaning against something.
“She said a German aeroplane flew low over their house and she heard the bomb bay doors come open.”
My old mum told me that when I was young. She died in 1995. The seated doll in this photo is Joanna.
In the kitchen
Stepford-on-Sea railway station
The painting in this ‘curtain backdrop’ is originally by Howard Fogg. My only modification is the station name sign.
Locomotive
Doll, tomato, and flowers
Wooden hat
Comanche is made of cardboard
Laura and Meotzi
Sindy, Meotzi, and Meotzi’s big baby bunny in July 2021
The blanket was my late mother’s from her last nursing home.
The new bunnies are clearly color matched to their mums’ outfits. I was unaware of any conscious decision based on color when deciding which doll would get which bunny, but maybe it was subconscious. However, it seemed inevitable that Eva, my youngest daughter, should have the first (and largest) of the new bunnies. (That one was sent to us by Emily in North Carolina.) And who else but Lina should have the Mexican volcano bunny — another good color match — to her skin rather than her outfit though. For more of the bunnies, see Miscellaneous photos, home 2.
External link
Sitting Bull leads his people into Canada on History.com
Brave Guys and Beautiful Dolls 