Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. toy animal but super sweet still

but super sweet still

and the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design

makes it notable for another reason: Weetakluktuk (originally from Inukjuak

he's in very good condition

either Tlingit and Haida

Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. toy animal but super sweet stillA 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