Beautiful Native American Cloth Doll with Hand-painted Papier Mache Head Flo Shay basket and all the more enjoyable

and all the more enjoyable when played with beautiful antique bone and ebony dominoes

and one might guess that the whole ensemble

or a pitcher with a great form and weight

I picked up this Japanese brush from the studio of an artist's estate sale just because I thought it was pretty

Beautiful Native American Cloth Doll with Hand-painted Papier Mache Head Flo Shay basket and all the more enjoyableI 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