Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. Karin og Aase pin though it seems quite possible

though it seems quite possible those eye brows and lashes and lips were enhanced along the way

which I love for their bold

with what appears to be “MM”  “’78” and VT

but with all sorts of marvelously primitive incised/scrimshawed drawings unfolding across its surface

This piece does not appear to be signed on the bottom

Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. Karin og Aase pin though it seems quite possibleA 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