Chinese Wire and Cloth Doll black and umber there is no sticker remaining

there is no sticker remaining on this one

is Northwest Coast Native

which I believe are African and made of bone and what appears to be silver or silver plate (it is quite shiny

) I like to think this is the box in which Nathaniel Hawthorne delivered the handwritten manuscript for "House of the Seven Gables" (based in Salem

I imagine this spectacular white glazed

Chinese Wire and Cloth Doll black and umber there is no sticker remainingOh, so lovely! I don't know a lot about this doll, but I am pretty certain it is Chinese, and perhaps a "Chinese Opera" doll, which from what I understand were sold at Chinese opera performances as momentos, and often also then converted into puppets for use re enacting the operas. From what I can tell, the body is made of wire covered with cloth, such that the arms and legs can be manipulated some. I'd guess the head as well as the boots are made of