Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face pink lining it's a great object just

it's a great object just for display

Another example of an Inuit carving that exhibits dual natures even while assuming the most pared down of forms

curious round face and these great big hands out front

The black paint of her hair and brown of her body has aged and worn some highlighting the knife marks of her carving and revealing green undertones in the paint

The beautiful production of this 1908 edition of "The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment" belies its contents

Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face pink lining it's a great object justNo way could I not bring this little woman home, who I found a few days ago in New Hampshire. At first I took her for a nun, but now I think more likely she was meant to be a pilgrim. Her maker did a pretty brilliant job with her crepe paper dress, especially the almost origami like wrap of her bonnet turning into shawl, knotted in the back. There are pipe cleaners under her sleeves for arms, and a wooden torso, animated with this great pencil drawn