Painted pine bust-length milliner's model head; carved from one block of wood; long, flattened oval head with carved eyes, painted black with black painted curly hair, a carved nose, eyes and lip line; flesh paint overall and red at lips; trace of black paint in corset area and a continuously carved platform base.
models (representations)
hats
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Carved
Painted
MODEL, PRODUCT
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
20 x 7.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1605
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