Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. toy animal 13 5/8" l x 10

13 5/8" l x 10 1/8" t x 7" d

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and the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design

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Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. toy animal 13 5/8" l x 10A very sweet one, which the graphite drawn face makes me think of as a "her", who was made of Diamond Match crate wood (which dates it to early 20th c.) and appears never to have arms. Her jointed hips and legs make her a dancer, but there's no hole in her back for a dowel; there is some wear around her waist so I think likely there was once a wire there to hold her up by. There is some graphite writing one her chest which probably tells a bit of her