Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue study with specific rules

with specific rules

and his now highly valued paintings are in the collections of the Met

but very little on the face

and bristles of two colors

with just a bit of darkening to the brass

Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue study with specific rulesI'm guessing that the leather strip threaded through the cheeks of this old primitively carved figure once formed a loop by which it hung, but I found it like this, and think it lends a whole 'nother level of character and drama as it hangs: in part evincing a mustache, but to me feeling rather more like streaming tears. And while it seems this could be a bedpost doll, to me it now has all of the presence of a fetish doll, as if holding otherworldly