Wonderful Old Handmade Folk Art Doll with Patchwork Dress old butterfly potholder and the stalk has enough

and the stalk has enough of a depth to cast a bit of nice shadow

With tapered black painted legs (matching a set of shaker-style chairs listed separately)

including the fact that the figure seems both quite specific and also ambiguous in terms of gender

Pure joy to find this one in Mid-coast Maine this week

based on the color of the beads and looking at other examples (of which there are not very many) is that it dates sometime 1920s-40s

Wonderful Old Handmade Folk Art Doll with Patchwork Dress old butterfly potholder and the stalk has enoughOne of my favorite dolls I've found between her soulful embroidered face, hand stitched patchwork dress, fabric wrapped legs (those legs made of cornhusk I believe) and floppy bow stitched to one side of her head plus a pink one at her neck, what a lot of love and soul was invested in her, and how singularly beautiful I think she is. Cornhusk dolls have a very long tradition in Native American cultures of the Northeast; I don't believe that's what she