c. Late 19th Century Hand-carved Indigenous Folk Art Doll with Turned Head and Leather and Wool Scrap Clothing black hat especially for the fact that

especially for the fact that a few of them

but I'll forever look for more as I think they're fantastic--excellent looking and challenging for the brain as well as the manual dexterity

And its small scale makes it seem especially miraculous for it to have survived 200 years

Photos do no justice to this one

philosopher

c. Late 19th Century Hand-carved Indigenous Folk Art Doll with Turned Head and Leather and Wool Scrap Clothing black hat especially for the fact thatI have done a fair bit of digging around online since purchasing this doll at an antique show in Connecticut last weekend, but have not placed it definitively. Clearly Native American, my first instinct was from the Plains, and with the thought that he likely once sat on a horse (gripping reins in those beautifully carved hands). I am not certain, though dolls carved of wood, rather than sewn of hide, are more common to the Northeast and Northwest,