Very Limber Old Jig Woman with Wonderful Face and Sculptural Hair folk art faces 3" t x 3 5/16"

3" t x 3 5/16" d x 4 1/4" across at handle

with cotton backing

) Good for stashing all sorts of important things--passports and emergency cash among them

and even more so to bring it home

I didn't think too much about this small hand-stitched Pennsylvania doll quilt when I scooped it

Very Limber Old Jig Woman with Wonderful Face and Sculptural Hair folk art faces 3" t x 3 5/16"I really love her smiling face, but hard to beat the side view showing off her sculptural helmet of hair, fisted hands with detailed fingers, and chunky books so I put that photo first. She was made as a jig doll, with a hole in her back into which a dowel would be inserted in order to hold her up and set her dancing and she's quite a dancer indeed, with every joint limber and every inch of her just waiting to move. Certainly less common to find