Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue study a little wear around the

a little wear around the edges and very minor traces of wrinkling

and bristles of two colors

Honour abroad and liberty at home

though now each leg is attached at just one point

Dows' biography is fascinating

Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue study a little wear around theI'm guessing that the leather strip threaded through the cheeks of this old primitively carved figure once formed a loop by which it hung, but I found it like this, and think it lends a whole 'nother level of character and drama as it hangs: in part evincing a mustache, but to me feeling rather more like streaming tears. And while it seems this could be a bedpost doll, to me it now has all of the presence of a fetish doll, as if holding otherworldly