Arrow Novelty Skookum,

Native American Indian family of dolls,

made of composition

The Arrow Novelty Company of New York was founded in 1920, they are best known for their souvenir or tourist Skookum Native American Indian dolls (1914-1962) designed by Mary McAboy who was from Montana.  The earliest Skookum dolls had dried apple heads with a wood frame body wrapped with an Indian blanket.  Later the heads were made from composition, then hard plastic.  The dolls costumes represent various tribes in native outfits; males, women, children and papooses (babies), represented in sizes of a few inches to 36" tall, paper tags were often affixed to the bottom of the feet, tags from the 1940s to early 1950s 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.  (Harry Heye) H. H. Tammen Company, H. H. Tannem Curio Co. (1881-1962) of Denver, Colorado also supplied Skookum dolls, mostly to the west coast under their Tannem label.