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Wooden body; ovoid head with gessoed and painted features and glass eyes inset; carved and painted jointed arms and legs painted white and attached to torso with metal pins; doll wears a printed wool dress of light brown with paisley like devices in red, yellow, green and white and a printed linen apron and a white linen bonnet with velvet ties; white linen underclothing edged in lace.
dolls
carving (processes)
gesso
linen (material)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
wool (textile)
pine (wood)
Pine
Gesso
Wool
Linen
Carved
Painted
DOLL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
25 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1597
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