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Small, "penny wooden" carved doll with moveable legs and arms connected with thin wooden pegs; roughly carved; the flat-top oval head is painted with tiny features and black hair; painted pale pink until bust; hands and feet are very pale pink/white and red shoes are painted upon the feet.
miniatures (toys)
dolls
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Carved
Doll
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Insam, Hier (Maker)
Dolomite Mountains, Europe
6 3/4 x 1 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1266
Title Doll Bed Accession Number 1991.1178
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