Beautiful Native American Cloth Doll with Hand-painted Papier Mache Head tea ceremony Definitely with some age

Definitely with some age

marked with sixteenths of an inch

One could wrap the edges around a stretcher

In the course of discovering his great nimbleness as I was photographing him

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Beautiful Native American Cloth Doll with Hand-painted Papier Mache Head tea ceremony Definitely with some ageI am not certain the age or origins of this wonderful Native American doll, which I purchased from a seller in Oregon, but I find her an incredibly tender thing, and am completely taken with her. Her head I believe is paper mch, though almost seems like leather, with sculpted then hand painted features, attached to a hand stitched cloth body, with painted hands and legs. Her hair is black yarn, on her feet are suede moccasin boots, and under her