Oriental looking “US Folk Doll”?
This 29″ doll has very hard wood head hands and feet strung on a simple tubular shaped muslin body. The carving is simple and crude. It has been repaired / repainted. There is a light uneven top-coat of yellow shellac. You can see filler material behind the ear area. The head is very flat and shallow. The body might be a replacement. The wig was a collection of misc. wigs layered together. I removed the obvious late additions to leave her with just a very sparse silk thread wig which may be original to this doll. The doll was dressed very strangely and inappropriately in an old, cotton slip (possibly a modified old apron) which is just safety pinned in the back and a long cotton “pioneer style” dress and bonnet. It looks like it is a US Folk Doll made to represent an oriental lady. She looks Korean to me. Do you have any information to share about her?
