A handmade female doll with cloth arms and a carved wooden body and legs. It has a featureless cloth head with human hair. Its costume is a pink glazed chintz dress covered with lace netting.
dolls
carving (processes)
cloth
hair
wood (plant material)
Wood
Hair
Cloth
Carved
Doll
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 1/2 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.471
Title Bandbox Accession Number 1991.470A
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