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Doll

Collection Type

  • Toys and games

Date

1800-1900

GUSN

GUSN-3100

Description

Unpainted, stylized female standing form; head and body are of one piece with crudely carved facial features; cylindrical wood arms are attached to body with metal pins; straight cylindrical legs and squarish feet are fitted into the bottom of the figure's torso.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dolls
carving (processes)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Carved
Unpainted
DOLL

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

17 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1596

Date

1800-1900 (Possibly)

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