By Deborah Shawcross

Faceless Doll Project represents missing and murdered women

Jun 19, 2014 | 7:35 AM

Each doll is different, some have flowers and some have feathers but they are all missing a face.

The Faceless Doll Project represents missing and murdered women in Canada. The craft project used as community engagement was started by the Native Women's Association of Canada. The project is continuing in Regina, with Balfour Collegiate students and KidsFirst participants recently making their own faceless dolls.

Rhonda Stevenson is the aboriginal advocate at Balfour Collegiate. She says the dolls all look different. They were made with felt, leather, feathers, ribbon and even sparkles. She explained the significance of why the dolls were not given a face.

“We may hear the name, we may hear these numbers but these are women. They're mothers, sisters, daughters, students,” said Stevenson.

Elder Norma-Jean Byrd worked with the youth and adults who made the dolls. She says the faceless dolls are a reminder of how devastating it is to have missing and murdered women in the community.

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“Some of these dolls were made by people who had missing people in their own families, so it really, really meant something to them,” Byrd said.

The dolls are on display at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum until July and then will be shown at a number of locations across Regina.

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