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7" (18 cm.) - 11". Each is formed of corn husks with painted facial features and having elaborate costume which is also formed of corn husks, including one holding a corn husk baby, another with elaborate curlicue-trimmed bonnet, parasol and bead buttons, and the largest whose painted features include spectacles. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: American, early 1900s. Value Points: rare to find folk dolls with imaginative details; the spectacle lady has an attached early note "Straw lady...made by Nellie Morrison, a pioneer family of Salina, Kansas in 1934, made of corn husks. The family have been making 3 types of these dolls since before 1900 and a certain kind of corn leaf must be used for the work. Gladys Kingman, K.C. Kansas".