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Pair, Carved Wooden Eskimo Dolls
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$2,300
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Each 18" (46 cm). Each is of hand carved wooden with detailed sculpting of facial features, ears and hair, lightly tinted features to enhance the sculpting, unusual dowel-jointed necks allowing the heads to move up and down but not side to side, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, carved fingers. CONDITION: Generally excellent. COMMENTS: Early 20th century, unknown carver. VALUE POINTS: Superb larger size of the highly characterized couple, the woman having elaborate coiffure and carrying a small carved baby torso with jointed arms in back-pack, each wearing original leather coat with fur trim, high boots, bone trim.