Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. vintage watercolor tins but he does look likely

but he does look likely to be plotting

The fabric around his waist (where the red bow is) seems to have been painted and shows cracking

The sides of the basket are finished with two large circular ash ring handles which are bound with ash splints

and cream and rust around the neck

deceptive (invisible

Sweet Old Crate Wood Dancing Doll with Feminine Graphite Drawn Face, Early 20th c. vintage watercolor tins but he does look likelyA 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