Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe but it more than great

but it more than great enough to serve no function at all

(Along these lines

adding to its Japanese feel

13 3/8" l x  7" t x 5 1/4" w

which looks a bit like a bat

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe but it more than greatThis wonderful thing! Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort, into which eyes were scraped, punctuated with pencil at their centers and a little nose and mouth below, making it look rather like a cat. Around the dowel two different layers of cotton cloth were wrapped around and around, with two slits cut in the heavier cloth through which the hand sewn calico arms were pulled out. Those arms look to have received a few mends near the ends