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Description
12" (30 cm.) Carved wooden head with lightly tinted facial features, firmly stuffed cloth body, wooden hands. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Chinese Wooden Door of Hope missionary ship, circa 1920, the man wears an unusual costume of crudely woven homespun gown over leggings and homespun slippers, under a woven rattan tunic; on his head is a woven fitted cap with braided woven borders from which cascade three pom-pom balls that cover his eyes. Value Points: extremely rare costume from the Door of Hope collection with symbolic significance.